The Importance of Organic Search Rising

Search engine optimization (SEO) continues to thrive as more and more users are realizing the importance of search. “Making it onto the first page of results from Google, Yahoo! or Bing has always been a major goal, with marketers aware that consumers will give up after relatively few hits”, writes eMarketer. Why [...]

OneRiot Tries to Monetize Real-Time Search

Real-time search engine, OneRiot is taking advantage of the continual increase in popularity of users needing instant results by incorporating ads into their engine. Now, the real-time search engine is launching RiotWise Trending Ads, a stream of ads that match trending topics throughout the social web. What does that mean for real-time search, and [...]

Will Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Change SEO?

Although the details of the Microsoft-Yahoo still aren’t clear, there are many questions surrounding the partnership. While there are legal discrepancies that will go under legal microscope, there are other things to consider when thinking about how the deal will change search engine marketing. How will the deal affect SEO? As it stands, Google takes [...]

Users Satisfied with Google, how will Bing Compete?

Google users showed their vast satisfaction with the search engine in a survey conducted by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index. Google earned 86 points out of a possible 100, while Yahoo! scored 77 points. The survey does not reflect current search engine Bing. According to ReadWriteWeb, “In this survey, Microsoft’s Live Search received 75 [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo! Come Together

A year ago, a Microsoft-Yahoo! deal was rumored for months on end. The rumors eventually died out, but resurged recently, and have become official. Neither search engine will be taken over by its counterpart, this is a collaboration between the two search engines. While Google tops the two, they are hoping to foster some innovation [...]

Bing on the Right Track

Last year, Microsoft failed to buy Yahoo! and many thought that this signaled that the end was near for the lesser-used search engine. This year, Microsoft has made a splash in the search engine space when it unveiled Bing in early June. While many of Microsoft’s attempts to make a dent in the search [...]

Decision Engines on the Rise, Getting more Social

Bing was introduced a few weeks back as a decision engine, a tool used to help users make better decisions for their online activity. It seems that the decision engine is a new trend on the web. With the help of Flickr co-founder, Caterina Fake, Hunch.com is the newest addition to the decision engine game.
What [...]

Compete’s Findings Show Facebook Growth

It comes as no surprise that Facebook is growing with each passing month, but what is more impressive is at what rate the social network is growing. Web analytics firm, Compete has recently released information for May 2009 that illustrates just how many people are visiting Facebook as opposed to other social media sites, and [...]

Bing Travel Announced after Decision Engine Launches

Last week, Microsoft announced the unveiling of its new decision engine, Bing. Since then, the release of Bing has brought on much attention, and many users are flocking over to see what the new engine can do for them. One of Bing’s newest focus for its engine is the addition of Bing Travel [...]

Microsoft Offers Decision Engine, Unveils Bing

Microsoft recently unveiled a new form of search engine, Bing. It seems that Microsoft is trying steer as clearly away as possible from the term ‘search engine’, opting for the term ‘decision engine’. What is a decision engine, and how will Bing compare to larger search engines?
Bing will not have an official release until June [...]

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