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UK Search Spend Up 19%
20th January 2012
Search spend in has increased year-on-year by 14% in the USA and 19% in the UK, according to a new report on the state of digital marketing. More »
Microsoft Re-Launches Bing Deals
26th September 2011
Microsoft launched Bing Deals back in April of this year. They’ve now re-launched the service in an attempt to once again try and break into the daily deals market. More »
Bing Introduces Action Buttons
23rd September 2011
When 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 »
Bing Checks Out The Local Social Market
19th August 2011
Microsoft’s search engine Bing has recently added a new social networking app for their Windows Phone. The app is called ‘We’re In’. More »
Bing Testing Ads Within Organic Search Results
25th July 2011
Bing 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 »
Bing-Baidu Tie Up
8th July 2011
According to reports from Reuters, China’s largest search engine Baidu has made a deal with Microsoft’s search engine Bing. More »
Schema.org Unites Three Search Giants
6th June 2011
The three major search engines, Google, Bing and Yahoo! have decided to come together for a common purpose. They have jointly introduced a collection of HTML tags called schemas, which will help webmasters to markup HTML pages in order to improve their website optimisation. More »
Bing Launches Mobile & Desktop Deals
7th March 2011
Bing has recently launched a new feature that facilitates local commerce via their mobile and desktop search services. The new feature is shown as ‘Deals’ in the Bing menu. More »
Nokia Selects Microsoft OS
11th February 2011
Nokia has just announced a new partnership with Microsoft. The world’s most popular mobile handset manufacturer will use the Microsoft Windows Phone OS as the main operating system for their smartphones. More »
Bing Discusses the Future of Mapping
28th October 2010
Microsoft hosted an event in London yesterday to discuss the future for Bing maps with a panel of industry experts and users. John Craske from AccuraCast reports on the event. More »
Google v Bing – Kings Of Social Search?
21st October 2010
Microsoft engineers teamed up with Facebook developers, once again to make Bing search results more social. This new social search service was announced just a week age. Since then, it could only be a matter of time before Google did something similar. Predictably, Google has just introduced social enhancements to their search service. More »
Bing Recommends Twitter Users Based On Search
27th September 2010
Bing Social now recommends Twitter users that a user could follow, based on their search query. The new feature is known as ‘People Recommendation’. More »
Microsoft Struggles To Gain In Mobile Search
16th September 2010
Although Microsoft is doing quite well for itself in the desktop search market, they are still struggling to improve their position in the mobile search market. More »
Bing Overtakes Yahoo! In U.S.
14th September 2010
A recent report from Nielsen indicates that Microsoft’s search engine Bing has overtaken Yahoo! in terms of popularity in the U.S. market. More »
Bing Mobile Enhances Local Search
20th August 2010
Mobile search and local search are both gaining in importance. The convergence of the two is expected by many to be the ultimate use of mobile search. Bing mobile is working hard to ensure that they don’t miss out when that happens. More »
Earnings Reports Reveal Rebound In U.S. Advertising
10th August 2010
Reports of the quarterly earnings of various companies during the second quarter of 2010 have recently been published. These reports indicate an overall recovery in ad-generated revenue in most of the Internet, media and advertising companies. More »
Yahoo! Testing Bing Integration
6th August 2010
Yahoo! and Microsoft had struck a deal for a search and advertising partnership last July. The integration of the two search engines has finally started last month. More »
Bing For Business Launches In U.K.
18th May 2010
Bing is finally trying to catch up with Google Maps and the Google Local Business Centre by making it slightly easier for businesses in the U.K. to secure placement on Bing Maps. More »
Bing Socialises Shopping Search
10th May 2010
After having made it possible for users to share their opinions on search results relating to news and entertainment, Bing is now encouraging users to make the online shopping process more social. More »
Facebook Community Pages Live
22nd April 2010
Facebook Community Pages are now live and the new service already has over 6.5 million pages at the time of launch.
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