What is Bing?
Launched in early June, Bing is the latest search engine from Microsoft and represents the company’s latest attempt to gain market share on competitors Google and Yahoo. From a high level, Bing is essentially a combination of MSN Search and Live Search, re-formulated and rebranded as a stand-alone search engine (previous versions of [...]
Category Archives: Yahoo
Point of View: Microsoft Search Engine Bing
June 8, 2009 – 9:50 am
Overture’s Keyword Tool Says ‘No’ to Marijuana
July 27, 2007 – 3:45 pm
I don’t think anyone would argue that fact that the Overture suggestion tool is probably not the most accurate or effective keyword suggestion tool on the market today. Besides the fact that it still displays search volumes from January 2007, the accuracy of the numbers have been called into question over and over again [...]
Top 5 Worst of Search For May
May 18, 2007 – 12:59 pm
This is the first in a monthly series of posts highlighting the humorous, ridiculous and absurd in the world of search engine listings. In an age of automated keyword research and campaign management, with rich internet technologies evolving faster than the people who use them, some weird, funny stuff is bound to happen. [...]
Search Matters Weekly Search Hotness
May 16, 2007 – 2:32 pm
Normally I just post search links here with the exaggeratedly plain title “Search Matters Weekly Search links”. Well, you know what? We need to add a pinch of SEO spice to this weekly mélange of tasty Search goodness, so I’m going to try out some cinnamony sweet new titles and, in the spirit of [...]
Microsoft to buy Yahoo: Redux. Ad Nauseam.
May 4, 2007 – 10:43 am
Word on the street is that, in light of their latest loss to Google over Double Click and the new Google Apps (MS Office killer) and a possible Google OS beta to be released soon, Redmond is back in talks with Yahoo about a possible merger; even though the business advantages to this merger appear [...]
What is Social Media Optimization?
November 22, 2006 – 5:39 pm
Social Media Optimization is a concept that is making its way into mainstream marketing publications. Social Media Optimization or SMO is a concept coined by Rohit Bhargava of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. In his 5 Rules of Social Media Optimization, Rohit explains that:
“The concept behind SMO is simple: implement changes to optimize a site so [...]
Who is clicking on your paid search ads, and what were they actually searching for?
July 22, 2006 – 5:36 pm
Paid search is often touted as the perfect advertising medium, in which ads appear only for those individuals who are actually searching for the advertiser’s product right at that moment. However, while clever search engine technology goes a long way towards achieving this ideal, the “match made in heaven” of paid search depends on [...]
What is Personalized Search?
April 4, 2006 – 5:11 pm
Put most simply, personalized search is the delivery of search engine results that are uniquely tailored to both keyphrases and individual searchers. For example, in the early days of search, everyone searching for the phrase “AMD” would get the same results, whether they were interested in silicone chips or semiconductors, or age-related macular degeneration. With [...]
Report from the Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York City
March 22, 2006 – 5:06 pm
The search marketing space continues to grow by leaps and bounds, and if this year’s record crowds at Search Engine Strategies in New York are any indication, the search space will not be cooling down anytime soon. For those who could not attend here are some of the highlights from the conference from an organic [...]
