Bing

Bing to Begin Powering Yahoo! Organic Search…This Week

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

I expected the Bing/Yahoo! search alliance to begin early Q1 of 2011.  Apparently things are ahead of schedule as I just received this notice for Microsoft AdCenter. This is an exciting week for Bing as we reach another major milestone in the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance. This week, Bing will begin powering organic search [...]

Does Bing have better search results?

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Bing’s search results are far better than anything Live ever returned. That’s not surprising though. For the longest time I thought Live was Microsoft’s version of StumbleUpon. An interesting experiment is being run to compare Bing with Google and Yahoo! at http://blindsearch.fejus.com/. Basically the search results are stripped of their brand (and any multimedia or [...]

Bing the Serch Engine

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Not sure why Microsoft is advertising Bing as the new “Serch Engine”  Maybe it has revolutionized Search to the point that a new spelling is required. Maybe Microsoft will announce the have the world’s first and best Serch Engine  Anyways this advertising result gave me a good laugh.

Bing Webmaster Tools

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Not seeing any changes in MSN webmaster tools other than rebranding.  Obviously all the sites had relatively recent crawl rate (within 48 hours) but thats to be expected prior to launch.  One very noticible difference for my websites was a significant improvement in Domain Score and Page Score.

First Thoughts on Bing

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Bing has gone live, although the logo still shows preview so there may be more changes in store, but since I have a few minutes here are my first thoughts and observations. 1. Bing is only providing local results when the search includes a geographic qualifier.  I expected Bing to perform similarly to Google and [...]