Michael Buckley, YouTube host, at home in Connecticut.Credit...Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times Making videos for YouTube � for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers � is now a way to make a living. One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning six-figu

By Carolyn Clark, Corporate Communications We call them our boomerangs and we are incredibly proud of these former employees who have come back to work at the ‘Hoo. More than 10% of our workforce have “boomeranged” back to the company! We recently sat down with a few of them to find out why, and we were incredibly inspired by their responses. Yahoo’s transparency, scale, inclusive environment, sen

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Google Book Search Puts Magazines Online First Google digitized books, then newspapers, then historic Time-Life photos and now — magazines. Today through Google Book Search, people can search the full-text of millions of articles from more than 10 magazine with hundreds more to come, the company has announced. Eventually, content from the magazines will be available to those doing Google News […]