Activity happening on Facebook, Google+, Twitter and other top social networks continues to influence search results on Google, Bing, and other search engines. Bing has gone to great lengths to incorporate social signals into its search results via...
While Google is still the huge powerhouse when it comes to search market share in the US, Microsoft / Bing is definitely making its presence known with a nearly 2 percent increase from this time last year.
Recently, Bing began experimenting with images in search results, similar to authorship markup, but also for news results. That changes today as Google announced a new schema that supports company logos.
While Google and Bing's tools are good for giving you an idea of what those engines see as your backlinks, you'll probably be better off using a more robust link tool for analysis, as they don't give you all the information that you might want.
The deal terms between Microsoft and Yahoo mean that the partnership can only be called off if either Microsoft closes or sells Bing, or if Yahoo's revenue per search falls below 40 percent of Google's.
Then I'll cover Bing's connection to Graph Search, including both organic and paid search. A few days before my SES NY presentation, I was double checking how Facebook handled traffic it was sending to websites from the Bing fallback results.
Google currently owns more than 67 percent of the search market, with Bing at just under 17 percent and Yahoo at less than 12 percent. She felt that Yahoo and Bing shared the same search market share, rather than cutting into Google’s market share.
As Google rolls out its Fiber service in Kansas, Bing has moved into Topeka, just a short drive down I-70 with an offer of their own. The Bing it On Challenge has apparently left Google's backyard of San Francisco and have taken the Bing it On...
Bing Webmaster Tools also has an inbound link reporting tool and it is interesting to compare differences both search engines have in these reports. Results show what pages logged-in searchers landed on when finding website information in Google...
Google is the web's most discerning user – Matt Cutts, March 2013: "What Google wants is what users want" and Bing is very close behind (if not in a slight lead thanks to Duane Forrester). You've probably heard of QDF or "Query Deserves Freshness...
And use tools from other search engines like Bing and Blekko. Google uses web crawlers (a.k.a.bots or GoogleBot) to find and index web pages by following links. In a new Webmaster Help video, Google's Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts reveals five...
Are you seeing less than 10 results in your Bing search results? Have you noticed Bing delivering different numbers of results lately? Starting last week, Bing began changing up their search engine result pages (SERPs).
Now, take some of the folder names and page names found above and perform a site: operator in Google and Bing to assess whether these pages are indexed. While you're reviewing some of the above page types in potential indexation situations, it...
Bing Ads and You: Keyword Distribution Graph Coming Soon – Bing Ads BlogNow in testing, this will give you a big picture view of the performance of thousands of keywords and identify opportunities. Microsoft’s Bing stops working for some users...
For example, did you know that 73 percent of the searchers on Bing and Yahoo in the Travel category are exclusive, which means you can only find these U.S.travel searchers on the Yahoo Bing Network – not on Google.
How do you see this impacting, if at all, market share of search with traditional search providers, Google and Bing? RG: For Bing, the social platforms with the most juice are Twitter and Facebook, because they have direct integration with both of...
Safe Searching with Bing: A Response to AV-TEST's Search Malware Analysis – Bing Search BlogBing says a recent malware study's conclusions are wrong because AV-TEST used Bing's API, not bing.com. Bing Ads and You: Search Terms Report Coming Soon...
And with similar changes pending from Yahoo/Bing, it only becomes even more critical to accurately measure. Ever since last year’s rollout of the new product listing ad (PLA) system from Google, there’s been an ongoing debate about whether PLAs...
And Bing is right behind them, ready to implement a strategy of their own. While ongoing organic traffic mis-labeling due to mobile secured searches is the most obvious cause of decline since mid September of last year, Google has snuck in a huge...
So much work has gone into reaching and maintaining parity with Google AdWords, it was hard to imagine Bing Ads wouldn't follow AdWords and force users down the same new structure. Further, this shows that while it's important for Bing Ads to keep...