Posts Tagged bing
Bing and Ping: Share Search Results on Facebook and Twitter
Posted by Gulisoferus in Search Engines, microsoft on September 3rd, 2009
Microsoft let everyone know about a forthcoming feature of their new search engine today. Bing and Ping, as they’ve lovingly dubbed it, will let you easily share search results with your friends on Facebook and Twitter as well as by email.
At least at first, the sharing tools will only be available for searches that invoke “Instant Answers.” The examples given were football scores and airline flights, with other time-sensitive data and scenarios like stock prices, movie times, weather results and more also invoking that type of search.
Underneath the Instant Answer results from your query will be a horizontal “sharing” bar with icons to send those results to friends on Facebook, Twitter, or via email. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo Shareholders Transfer $2.9 Billion To Microsoft Shareholders
Anyone wondering who got the better deal today (my detailed thoughts later) need only look at the stock movements of Yahoo and Microsoft. Yahoo dipped 12.08% to $15.14, knocking $2.91 billion off their market cap. Microsoft gained 1.41% to $23.80, adding…$2.94 billion to their market cap. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo Got Binged
Today, Yahoo died as a search engine. If the deal with Microsoft is approved, what will replace it will be Bing, the search engine that Microsoft launched only two months ago. Within a few months time, Microsoft will go from owning 8 percent of the U.S. search market to 28 percent (comScore). That is still less than half of Google’s 65 percent, but it could give Microsoft a fighting chance in the search wars against Google. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: The Official Press Release
Bing, Twitter, And A Backpack Full Of Cash (Hopefully For Beer)
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 22nd, 2009
You gotta hand it to the Bing guys, they just don’t stop coming up with kooky ideas to drive interest in their little search engine (or whatever you want to call it) that could. The latest is a new contest starting tomorrow on Twitter that will see one winner a day walk away with a Bing backpack and a $500 Visa cash card to use for back-to-school shopping.
But reading over the fine print, it doesn’t appear that you need to use the money for back-to-school shopping. And in fact, the rules state that you have to be over 18 to enter the contest, so unless parents are doing it for their kids, or it’s all college kids entering, it doesn’t really seem all that student-friendly. And that’s good, because it will increase my chances of winning and using the $500 on something more desirable than protractors — like maybe beer.
Wait … Microsoft Had Its Own Version of YouTube?
Is there any industry where Microsoft isn’t competing with bitter rival Google? Think about it: Bing vs. Google Search, Google Docs vs. Microsoft Office (soon to be online), Gmail vs. Hotmail, Windows Mobile vs. Android, and let’s not forget Windows vs. Google Chrome OS.
With all of these high profile battles, you really can’t blame us if we’re saying “meh” to the news that Microsoft is closing Soapbox. Wait, what’s Soapbox you ask? Why, that’s their version of YouTube, and part of the far more popular MSN Video website. Read the rest of this entry »
BingTweets Brings Bing, Twitter Together
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 15th, 2009
Earlier this month, Bing began to return certain celebrities’ most recent tweets on its main results pages. Now, a side project has taken the real-time search integration much further, with BingTweets turning up all sorts of Twitter-related info together with a more standard set of search results.
BingTweets, which is in beta, is a result of a partnership between Bing, Federated Media, and Twitter. The most interesting thing about it is that users can see a constantly-growing list of tweets in which their query term features.
Trending topics are presented and sorted according to the categories of “Popular Now,” “People,” “Places,” or “Products,” too. And users can share their findings through any number of social media sites.
Bing Making Big Advertising Strides
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 14th, 2009
AdGooroo’s released another search advertising report, and many of the statistics within are predictable; on the whole, they indicate that Google’s doing well and Yahoo’s not. But some interesting (and mostly positive) changes are taking place with regards to Bing.
AdGooroo’s report states, “For the year ending June 2009, Bing appears to have grown its advertiser base by about 35%.” New advertisers who have made it onto Bing’s top 25 list include impressive entities like Dell, Edmunds, Home Depot, and Sears.
Google grew its advertiser base by more – 52 percent – yet the report explains, “Bing is tempting many established pay-per-click advertisers to taste their service.” And “it may simply be that Microsoft is executing a two-stage strategy; the first stage being to grow their audience, and only after that, to focus on recruiting advertisers . . .”
Then there’s what Bing’s accomplished for those advertisers to consider. Bing actually showed 24 percent fewer first-page ads in June than Microsoft’s old offering did in March, and so may be making progress in terms of ad relevance. (Plus, this detail supports the two-stage theory.)
The next quarter or two may be quite interesting, then, as Bing does its best to establish a sort of advertising foothold against the much-more-successful Google and Yahoo.
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Bing is Taking Feature Requests
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles on July 10th, 2009
Microsoft wants you to like Bing. If the company ever hopes to lure a significant enough amount of people away from Google, it has to deliver on user experience. For the most part the public’s response to Bing in this area has so far been relatively positive.
Bing has set up a discussion page on Facebook where fans can request features they would like to see added to Bing. Here is a sampling of some of the requests made so far:
Bing Appears Ready To Grab Yahoo’s Search Ranking
Posted by Hassan Alsheikh in Articles, Yahoo on July 10th, 2009
Microsoft’s Bing search engine overtook Yahoo in the United States on Thursday, according to StatCounter. The last time Bing overtook Yahoo on a single day was on June 4, shortly after its launch, the Dublin-based Web analytics firm said.
Bing grabbed 12.9 percent of the U.S. market versus Yahoo’s 10.15 percent share, but both are still well behind market leader Google at 74.99 percent, reported StatCounter, which bases its research on an analysis of 1.316 billion search-engine referring clicks — including 336 million from the U.S.
“While (Bing’s) lead over Yahoo may not last into next week, our data suggests that it is slowly but surely closing the gap,” said StatCounter CEO Aodhan Cullen.
At Google’s Expense
StatCounter reported earlier this month that Bing helped Microsoft increase its share of the U.S. search market by one percentage point during June. Overall, Microsoft held an 8.23 percent share last month, trailing far behind Google (78.48 percent) and Yahoo (11.04 percent).
Cullen said the latest data indicate Bing’s success is coming at Google’s expense. “We can see that Bing is gaining very slowly, but it is gaining, and the data is almost a mirror image in that when Bing goes up, Google goes down and vice versa,” Cullen said. “But Yahoo remains very steady — it’s not losing any share.”
Other recent reports suggest that Google users in particular seem to be looking for a viable alternative to the current search-engine market leader.
“In the first week following the announcement of brand Bing — but still before the official June 1 launch — 97 percent of visitors to Bing.com overlapped with Google, compared with only 37 percent and two percent overlap with Yahoo and AOL, respectively,” said Taylor Holsinger at Web analytics firm Compete.com. “During launch week, the dramatically larger overlap of Bing Googlers continued, relative…
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Bing Appears Ready To Grab Yahoo’s Search Ranking