For the second straight month Bing saw its U.S. search engine market share on the rise. Meanwhile, Google held steady, duplicating its record share of the search market, while Yahoo held steady after 10 months of declines, comScore reported. comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* July 2012 vs. June 2012 Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations Source: comScore qSearch …
Microsoft Advertising Rebrands as Bing for Small & Medium Businesses
As of May 1, Microsoft’s small and medium business brand changed its name to Bing, bringing the name and design in line with the search engine’s homepage. People who use Bing for search are in decision-making mode, Microsoft revealed in a statement about the rebranding. The ad buying experience through adCenter for SMBs is now more cohesive with the search user …
Is Apple Is About To Launch A New Global Search Engine?
Did the headline catch your eye? I really wanted a teaser headline for this post which would entice people to read and discover the details of a new global search engine — but for that message, a teaser alone just wasn’t credible. But when I added the word “Apple” to the headline, it completely changed its dynamics — just like …
New Bing UI spotted by Liveside
The people over at Liveside.net, an independent blog that covers Microsoft’s online efforts, have posted screenshots about the changes Bing has done recently. Looks like the folks at Bing are back at it again, testing new versions of the UI, while not saying much about them or how (or even when) the changes will roll out more broadly. This latest …
Why webmasters should pay attention to Bing
It’s been two years since Microsoft launched its Bing search engine, but it was only a few weeks ago the “beta” tag was taken off. Now, SEO experts say, you should perhaps pay a little more attention. Although these online marketing gurus say Google is still the main focus, it may be time to take a few seconds and see …
Dex actions programs…New Low?
I stumbled across a SERP (Search Engine Results Page) today that has taken the last of the air from the Dex sails. Dex One, or dexknows.com has started claiming local listings on the customers behalf and pointing the local, or places (shown in example below in red) listings at the Dex “digital storefront.” What does this mean? On the surface …
Search Engine Rankings – April 2011
comScore recently released April 2011search engine rankings report. This report shows overall market share / usage of the top search engines. Here is the recap in order of usage: Google search market share fell to 65.4 percent, a loss of .3 percent in March. Yahoo grew to 15.9 percent, a gain of .2 percent. Bing grew to 14.1 percent, a …
Don’t Worry About Google’s Rising Costs And Tighter Margins
This article is more about investment in stock, however I think it should be included on this site because of the general public’s limited view point about Google being the only search engine. Google’s earnings came as a huge blow to the internet giant, as rising costs and falling margins led to an important selloff in the stock driving its …
SEO vs. SEM
Many people confuse or don’t know the difference between the two. I’m going to try to help you understand the pros and cons to both allowing you to make a decision for yourself. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is located in the main space of the search engine results page and has always been a fundamental goal on initial website construction. …