Drive PPC Revenues By Addressing The Bing Dilemma
In February, comScore released their monthly analysis of the US search marketplace, reporting Google with a 67.6% share of the search market and Bing, which powers Yahoo! search, a 28.7% share. Though these findings continue to confirm Google’s dominance in the search landscape, it’s important to…
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Bing Better Than Google At Tracking 12 Digit Fedex Tracking Numbers
Did you know Bing is better at Google when it comes to tracking some FedEx packages…
For Robocop, Bing Imagines The Future Of Search In 2028
What will search look like in 2028? That’s a question that the folks at Bing were tasked with answering for the new movie, Robocop. (Well, “new” as in a remake of the 1987 original that just hit theaters this week.) In a blog post this week, the Bing search folks shared a few…
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Microsoft’s New CEO Is A Search Guy, Satya Nadella
Yesterday, Microsoft named Satya Nadella their new CEO. Yes, he is a familiar name for many of you because he has been involved in search at Microsoft for years.
He keynoted at one of the first, if not the first…
Bing Rewards Adds iOS & Android Support, Windows Coming Later
Bing announced they are bringing their Bing Rewards program to mobile devices. Well, not all mobile devices, just iOS and Android for now. Some what ironically, Windows devices are currently not supported…
Bing For Schools, Finally?
Matt Wallaert, a Behavioral Scientist at Microsoft but more well known for creating Bing For Schools posted on Twitter something strange. He wrote, “Finally, Bing for Schools. No ads, the way it should be in schools…
Bing Adds SSL Support But Promises To Keep SEO/SEM Community “Top Of Mind”
First spotted via Hacker News, Bing now has enabled searchers to go to https://www.bing.com and search over Bing SSL search.
I covered this at Search Engine Land where I said early tests show that when on SSL search…
The Perfect New T-Shirt For Matt Cutts Videos: Scroogled Microsoft Store
If you missed all the industry excitement yesterday, Microsoft launched a scroogled store on the Microsoft site.
You can buy mugs, hats, hoodies and t-shirts with marketing slogans from Microsoft’s anti-Google campaign – Scroogled…
A New Streamlined Version Of The Bing Search API
Bing announced they have “streamlined” the MSDN API Search.
This means it will be faster and more efficient for developers to build software around the API.
The API docs are over here and the specific changes include these examples:
Find the .Net ve…
Bing Ads Executives Share Plans To Make Bing A Better Ad Platform
Earlier this year, there were questions about where Bing would stand after CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Microsoft’s reorganization plan in July. It turns out the move has been a good one for the search engine. Microsoft chose to give Bing an enterprise-wide embrace. The company is now…
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Bing Verified Profiles Via Klout
Now you can verify your Bing profile using Klout. Bing said, “to help people manage their presence online…
Microsoft Also Working On Cookie Replacement
The big ad news from last night was that Microsoft is also working on their own technique for tracking ads and replacing the cookie tracking system that has been around for over a decade…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Bing It On Challenge Was Obviously Flawed
A little over a year ago, Microsoft launched this campaign named the Bing It On Challenge, which was basically a blind-search taste test pinning Bing against Google…
Bing’s New Logo & Search Features Preview
Late last night, Microsoft announced on the search blog the next phase of Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. You can “explore” these changes at bing.com/new.
The most obvious change is the new yellow/orange logo…
Bing’s New Sub Deep Links
@tecnonetblog posted a video of new Bing deep links (aka sitelinks). The new format has 6 main top level deep links and then has up to an additional six or so sub-deep links under some of the main deep links…
Microsoft Updates Bing Video Search
Bing announced updates to their video search engine…
Bing News Updates: Adaptive Design, Trending & Facebook & Twitter Content
Bing announced a major overhaul of the Bing News portal.
The first thing you will notice is the new look. The new design is very basic, but allows for an “adaptive design,” so that it works on all devices. Yes, tablet…
Bing Deep Links Directly In Search Box
Bing is apparently testing showing deep links, what Google calls sitelinks, directly in the Bing search box, without going to the search results page.
Aaron Wall spotted this and posted a picture on Twitter…
Ballmer Retires From Microsoft While Google Sees Ties To Adware
Everyone by now has heard that Microsoft’s CEO has announced he will retire from Microsoft within the year. There is a lot of speculation on why and was it sudden or not. In any event, he has given his life to the company and it has paid off well fo…
Bing Testing Favicons In Search Result Snippets
Bing is testing displaying favicons in the search results, next to the title of the search snippet. A reader, Joshua Hedlund, emailed us a screen shot of this test. Bing has confirmed this is not a browser extension modifying the search results, but rather one of Bing’s many tests to the…
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