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According to an internal analysis of small business search results, Marchex – a provider of small business marketing products – found that more than 80 percent of results did not point to the websites of those businesses...
A new partnership with daily deals aggregator The Dealmap is the springboard for Microsoft’s entry into the explosive local-buying space. Called Bing Deals, the new service will deliver discounted local deals and coupons through...
Consumers conducting queries (searching) on Bing Shopping will arguably receive a better (read more accurate) experience thanks to some improvements to how the search engine processes natural language queries - particuarly in regards...
Google announced what may ultimately be one of the biggest changes to their algorithm yet . From the Official Google Blog: " Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But in the last day or so...
Marin Software published a report last week (“ Why the Search Alliance Is Paying Off for Paid Search ”) which suggests the Microsoft and Yahoo search alliance increased the share of paid-search impressions by 4% and share...
Yahoo and MSN are on a mission to produce un-fathomable amounts of content on the Web. Yahoo's acquisition of Associated Content -- since rebranded as Yahoo Contributor Network -- relies on thousands of freelancers (just about...
Bing announced the release of a new Inbound Link feature into its Webmaster Tools offering. The feature provides registered site owners the ability to retrieve data about links pointing to their sites. As you might imagine, Bing received...
Microsoft’s Bing introduced a wide assortment of new search features on Wednesday, the same day that the latest report from comCast revealed slight gains by Bing for the month of November. In fact, though the overall movement...
Bing has added a new feature this week that integrates Facebook with Bing Shopping search results. Users can now create a shopping list on Bing and then post the list to their Facebook Wall to get feedback from friends and family....
Spending on search advertising by small businesses was up 43 percent in the third quarter of 2010, but that number is a little bit misleading. That robust increase is actually down, way down, from the previous three quarters –...
There has been a shortage of useful information for search marketers related to the Bing/Yahoo advertising migration - that fortunately is starting to change as agencies and advertisers dig in to the modified platform. Search marketing...
You were told repeatedly that your participation on Facebook was no longer optional (but mandatory) and now you have proof. Bing announced an expansion of its partnership with Facebook yesterday and it’s a doozy. Bing will be...
When Google Instant launched earlier this month, the relatively indifferent reactions from the Yahoo and Microsoft camps came as no surprise. No one expected Google’s competitors to come out and say that the world’s dominant...
According to a study from GroupM Search , advertisers could see a cost-per-click increase up to 78 percent above current Bing CPC's as they move to one platform with the upcoming search alliance transition. GroupM Search projects...
Last week Yahoo! began transitioning certain back-end functions for its Search product over to Microsoft's search platform. The transition is now complete. If you follow the world of SEO closely, welcome to a two-horse race. Yahoo...
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