- Nokia To Adopt Microsoft Bing, adCenter
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 11, 2011
Nokia will adopt Microsoft Bing's Windows Phone 7 technology as its primary operating system on its smartphones -- a clever strategy to take market share. Bing will power Nokia's search ...
- Why Nokia-Microsoft Search, adCenter Deal Makes $ For Advertisers
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 14, 2011
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop knows exactly how to drive up sales for the ailing company. Some experts believe the partnership is not in either company's best interests, but I disagree. ...
- Bing's Local Search Feature Could Drive Clicks And Cash
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 11, 2011
Bing began testing two types of search queries to better understand human behavior and increase the relevance of results -- not only organic, but paid search, too. The tests running ...
- A 'Page' From Google's PR Book
Inside Performance, Gord Hotchkiss - Thursday, February 10, 2011
Somehow, I've gotten myself squarely in the middle of Bing and Google again. Sometimes I should just keep my big mouth shut. The latest brouhaha is Google calling Microsoft a ...
- Microsoft, Vibrant Innovate Display Ads
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, February 10, 2011
Display advertising will make a leap this year in an effort to keep up with changes across the Internet. Microsoft and Vibrant stepped up innovations, each separately releasing new ad ...
- Bing Capitalizes On Portal Traffic
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, February 9, 2011
The combination of portals and search remains an ongoing topic that some would just as soon sweep under the rug. But in the coming year, search engine marketers will learn ...
- Yahoo's Search Future Found In 'Web Of Objects'
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 4, 2011
The next evolution of engines will converge search, a URL produced by an algorithm, with portals. It stores and serves content from articles to images to videos laid out on ...
- Colbert Nation Gets Bingeled In Spoof
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, February 7, 2011
The "Colbert Report" satirized Google's copycat accusation of Bing. Danny Goodwin reminds us Colbert and Bing worked together to help clean up the Gulf after the BP oil spill last ...
- Bing Sets Record Straight, Again
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, February 3, 2011
In an effort to defuse allegations of being a search "copycat," Yusuf Mehdi, SVP of online services at Bing, wrote in a blog post, "we do not copy results from ...
- Bing To Google: We Do Not Copy Search Results
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Search marketers who think they've heard it all might want to give it another thought. Google on Tuesday accused Bing of pillaging search results, which Microsoft denied. With the news ...
- OrangeSoda Tool Enhances Local Search For Google, Bing
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Local businesses will gain a tool Tuesday allowing marketers to confirm quickly and optimize local listings on sites like Google Place across the Web. OrangeSoda, an online marketing agency, will ...
- Twitter Takes Spam-Crushing Bing 'Principal Scientist'
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, January 27, 2011
Twitter just poached Bing "Principal Scientist" Alek Kolcz,
ReadWriteWeb is reporting. Still, "Microsoft is a giant pile of people with impressive titles," so, as the tech blog admits, "There ...
- Bing Debuts New Images Landing Page
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Microsoft introduced Monday a landing page with images representing 20 recent top searches, as "a fresh way to enter the image search experience." It provides a quick snapshot of some ...
- SEO Platform Startup Delivers SAP-Like Workflow Tools
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, January 23, 2011
Workflow management tools have become the backbone of the automotive and electronics industries, cutting costs, managing global projects, and realizing return on investments (ROI). Now a couple of search engine ...
- U.S. Paid Search Budgets Forecast To Rise 15%
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Bing and Yahoo search engines will begin to gain market share in 2011 as small-to-midsize advertisers increase budgets to start to take advantage of potential volume and stronger return on ...
- Search And Social Like Dark Chocolate And Beer
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Steve Jobs became a wildly successful CEO based on his ability to visualize the benefits that tie together a variety of digital content across media, music to movies, from companies ...
- Social Games Could Branch Out To Search, Publisher Sites
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 13, 2011
Social game makers looking to build brands could bring content to search engines, publisher sites and destinations other than Facebook, according to eMarketer Senior Analyst Paul Verna. While no proof ...
- Trada Converts Search Yahoos Mayer And Wright
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Former Yahoo executives Tim Mayer and Ben Wright have joined the team at Trada, a paid search marketplace that managed to turn the art of creating successful paid search campaigns ...
- Bing Adds Search For Sports Seats Feature
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 7, 2011
Searching for those football or hockey tickets just got easier on Bing. The search engine added a feature that lets searchers compare tickets from more than 50 ticket sites, check ...
- Does Facebook Need To Build A Search Engine?
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Facebook, a social network, has become an important traffic source not only to company Web sites, but search engines like Google and Bing. So important that Goldman Sachs and other ...
- Search: And Then Social Content Creates Mass Relevance
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Yahoo, pushing to find a new identity, could blow through the remainder of 2010 on a high note. Those who caught Yahoo's good news Tuesday will know its sites ranked ...
- Microsoft Hooks Up With FairSearch.org, Adds Travel Features
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Bing added earlier this week natural language query technology to travel searches. It provides the ability to type parameters in the search box to query results, rather than select the ...
- Finding The Perfect Keyword Research Tool
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, December 13, 2010
Brent Rangen runs through a long list of keyword research tools, some of which marketers will find helpful; others simply a waste of time. Rangen tells us that even the ...
- Microsoft Rumored Readying TV Services Through Xbox 360
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, November 29, 2010
Microsoft, were you listening or did I just nail your intention to integrate Internet services into Xbox 360 through the Bing search engine and widgets? Early in November I described ...
- Why Apple Needs Twitter More Than Twitter Needs Ping
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, November 12, 2010
What if Apple opened Ping, its social network for music, to the social graph and allowed public information of its members to index through Twitter posts in search results on ...
- Barry Diller's Failure A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Dear Mr. Diller: You gave up too easily by throwing your hands in the air and surrendering the $1.85 billion acquisition investment in Ask.com after concluding Google just can't be ...
- Google Fills In Missing Text
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Aaron Wall tells us Google is replacing page titles in search results with on-page headings -- which means the search engine fills in the blanks from anchor text links when ...
- Microsoft Launches Kinect, Misses Bing Opportunity
Online Media Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Microsoft will capitalize on the Kinect launch Thursday to rebrand the Xbox 360 from a game box into an entertainment console, but some wonder whether the Redmond, Wash., tech giant ...
- Microsoft Online Earnings Slump Despite Bing Growth
Online Media Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, October 28, 2010
Year-over-year, Microsoft on Thursday said its online division lost $560 million for the fiscal first quarter. That's despite the fact that revenue at the unit, which includes MSN and Bing, ...
- Does AOL + Yahoo = A Weak Mess?
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, October 27, 2010
There are people who want badly to finance AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to buy Yahoo, Needham & Co. Analyst Laura Martin told OMMA Publish Entertainment conference attendees in Santa Monica ...
