Bing Relaunches Places For Business

Bing announced they have relaunched the Bing Business Portal under a new name, “Bing Places For Business.” The change doesn’t currently do much with your listings, outside of move the location of where you manage your business Bing Maps listing to bing.com/places. It also removes…

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Bing: Our Search Results Do Not Infect Users, “Malware Study Was Wrong”

Bing has responded to the malware study conducted by AV-TEST earlier this week, claiming that Bing search results led to five times more malware than Google. To that Bing said, “the conclusions many have drawn from the study are wrong.” Why is the study wrong according to Bing? While…

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Using the X-Default Hreflang Tag For Multinational SEO: Default Language Opportunities

Google & Yandex announced the new x-default hreflang tag earlier this month, and in doing so closed the final gap in executing ‘perfect’ SEO platforms for multinational brands. There is, however, the question of what language content to use as your default, and how you can bring a little…

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Bing Updates Windows 8 Apps Enhancing News, Finance, Weather, Sports, Maps & Travel

Microsoft announced they have made major updates to the Bing Apps for Windows 8 across most of their apps including News, Finance, Weather, Sports, Maps and Travel. The video below walks you through the changes but here are some highlights of the core …