Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, was given a new facade last week. The change however, is not just visual, but functional as well. With this new design Microsoft hopes to be able to better incorporate social into their search engine. (more…)
Recent ‘search’ News Stories
Will Microsoft Sell Bing To Facebook?
Friday, 27th April 2012Speculation is rife about the possibility that Microsoft could sell their search engine, Bing, to Facebook.
Tags: bing, facebook, mergers and acquisitions, microsoft
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Yahoo! – Bing Search Alliance Closes In On Google
Wednesday, 4th April 2012The Yahoo! Bing search alliance which has been trying to catch up with the Google search engine has shown a substantial growth in the first quarter of 2012. (more…)
Tags: bing, google, search, yahoo
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Mobile Search Ad Spend Up 150%
Thursday, 29th March 2012As the world continues to get better connected, due to the availability of smartphones and other mobile devices such as tablets, it is important for advertisers to realise that consumers tend to interact more and more with various brands and ads on their mobile devices. (more…)
Tags: google mobile, mobile advertising, mobile search, Smartphone, tablets
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Yahoo! Finally Gets Smarter Search
Thursday, 22nd March 2012Yahoo! has undergone several changes in the last few years to tide over the rough patch that they are going through. They have recently added some new features to their search platform. (more…)
Tags: google, semantic technology, yahoo
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Big Changes Likely In Google Search
Friday, 16th March 2012Google is not satisfied with just being the largest search engine in the market. It is believed that they intend to improve their search engine by introducing some new features in the near future. (more…)
Tags: google, search
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Google To Help Diagnose Ailments
Wednesday, 15th February 2012Google is trying to improve their search results, as far as medical diagnosis is concerned. And this has a few people very concerned. (more…)
Tags: diagnosis, google, health, search
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Bing Overtakes Yahoo! Search Share
Friday, 10th February 2012comScore has released the search share figures for the month of January 2012 for the U.S. market. According to their analysis, Bing has now taken a lead over Yahoo! in the search share. (more…)
Tags: aol, ask.com, bing, google, search engine marketing, yahoo
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Halloween Drives Online Costume Searches In UK
Wednesday, 12th October 2011Every year, around September, searches for ‘costumes’ and related keywords start spiking, not just in the USA but also in England and the rest of the UK. This is, of course, due to Halloween, which is celebrated more and more popularly in the UK on the 31st of October. (more…)
Tags: halloween, search, search engine marketing, yahoo search marketing
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Bing Introduces Action Buttons
Friday, 23rd September 2011When Microsoft first introduced Bing as their new search engine, they had said that Bing was more than just a search engine. According to them it was a “decision engine”. They have now gone a step further to make this statement a reality by introducing ‘Action Buttons’. (more…)
Tags: bing, links, search
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Marijuana Companies To Advertise Online
Thursday, 1st September 2011To date, most search engines and ad networks have banned advertising Marijuana and any other narcotics. Now, for the first time, a search company based in San Francisco will allow the advertising of marijuana online. (more…)
Tags: google adwords, search, search engine marketing
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Google Chrome Loads Instant Pages
Wednesday, 3rd August 2011During an Inside Search event in June 2011, Google had announced that they would be launching Instant Pages. They have now launched this new service. (more…)
Tags: chrome, google, instant pages
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Mobile Shopping Catches On In The U.K.
Wednesday, 27th July 2011It has been reported by The British Retail Consortium that mobile retail searches in the country are on the rise. (more…)
Tags: mobile commerce, mobile search
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Bing Testing Ads Within Organic Search Results
Monday, 25th July 2011Bing is testing a new format of advertising inter-mingled with their organic search results. This could have serious implications in the search market across the board. (more…)
Tags: advertising, bing, google, microsoft, search engine marketing, seo
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Harry Potter Search Mania
Friday, 22nd July 2011The last movie of the popular Harry Potter series was released recently, and this has led to search mania on the subject. (more…)
Tags: harry potter, search, yahoo
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Google Peaks UK Market Share
Monday, 18th July 2011The latest report released by Hitwise reveals that Google Search has crossed all its previous records as far as market share in the U.K. is concerned. (more…)
Tags: facebook, google, microsoft, search, seo, yahoo, youtube
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Bing-Baidu Tie Up
Friday, 8th July 2011According to reports from Reuters, China’s largest search engine Baidu has made a deal with Microsoft’s search engine Bing. (more…)
Tags: baidu, bing, search
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Teenagers Blissfully Unaware Of Osama Bin Laden
Wednesday, 4th May 2011The death of Osama Bin laden on Sunday has resulted in a renewal of interest in him. However, according to the Yahoo! Search Blog, teenagers seem to be quite unaware of who he is. (more…)
Tags: google, news search, Osama Bin Laden, search, yahoo
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