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It’s been a difficult couple of weeks over at Microsoft with the official pulling of the plug on the Kin project followed closely by a round of layoffs. But the latest report from Hitwise on the U.S. search market may help brighten...
Bing, Microsoft’s search engine that is slated to join forces with Yahoo! later this year, has announced its partnership with e-commerce merchant reviews provider ResellerRatings. The ratings site currently has nearly half a...
An announcement from HitWise this morning indicated that Google accounted for 71.49 percent of all U.S. searches for the four weeks ending Jan. 31, 2010 - a one percent decrease month-over-month. This would normally be nothing more...
Microsoft announced three quite significant modifications to Bing’s search deal with Facebook. The two companies first announced the collaboration back in 2006 and the relationship has been expanding since. This latest extension...
Local search business listings provider Localeze has extended its relationship with Microsoft’s Bing.com – a partnership formed in 2005 where Microsoft includes data from Localeze in its search index. Bing will use Localeze’s...
Microsoft/Bing has released what amounts to one of the most powerful free server-side SEO (search engine optimization) tools available. The IIS SEO toolkit , which caters to Web developers, hosting providers and Web server administrators...
According to iCrossing’s Enterprise Natural Search Share Index for December 2009, Google is rolling along nicely but Yahoo! continues its downward spiral. iCrossing reported that Google’s natural click share rose 0.78%...
The importance of keywords and phrases in domains, subdomain, folders, & page names What impact do keywords in the domain have on placement in search engines? How about if they are in the subdomain or only in the page name? What...
While Google remains far and away the leading search engine (with a 65% share of searches), Bing, at least according to Nielsen, is the fastest growing search engine. Bing's search market share in August rose 22.1% to 10.7% of...
Cashback started as a Microsoft Live Search offering in 2008. It gained some attention, but didn't really catch on with consumers like Microsoft (and retailers) had hoped. That attitude looks to be changing. Several weeks ago,...
Efficient Frontier reported some significant growth in paid click share for Microsoft's Bing . The data shows that as of the first week in August, Bing lifted their click share 44% since the beginning of June. Bing did particularly...
Adgooroo released its quarterly Search Engine Advertising Update today and the big winner looks to be Bing. The site surged to more than 22 million monthly visits and now calls some very big names (e.g. Dell, Sears, Hotels.com, Marriot...
Microsoft has taken a page from the Google playbook by actively embracing the webmaster and developer community with its Toolbox portal. The Toolbox is really just a collection of existing tools that links to important resources, but...
At the end of March, 2009, we started searching Google for particular keywords and phrases and noted where Twitter accounts appeared in the search results. What we found was interesting – Google was giving prominent positions...
If you haven’t heard of Bing yet — Microsoft’s latest branded search engine — you soon will because they have committed more than $80 million to advertising. While it remains to be seen if this latest search...
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