Bing Links Images of People (Not Just Authors) to Web Pages People are publishers and, as Google evolves, people and the content they produce are beginning to be prioritized by the search engines. Search for a brand in 2013, and it’s increasingly...
Although Google, Bing, and Yahoo have stringent privacy policies, there have been enough people worried that they have begun looking at alternative search engines, particularly so-called “private search engines.
Google and Bing are both up, while the other top search engines comScore tracks (Yahoo, Ask, AOL) were flat or saw declines. This continues the trend of Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo simply swapping search share rather than making inroads on Google’s...
Retailers spent more than $2.3 billion on paid search advertising with Google AdWords and the Yahoo Bing Network in 2012, according to AdGooroo data (disclosure: I work there) making retail the most robust category for paid search in terms of ad...
Yoast uses rdfa markup for breadcrumbs – which was a precursor to schema – but it is still useful and works well in both Bing and Google. While "authorship" handles some of this within a Google result – having the information that pertains to your...
The reality is that Google, and to a lesser degree Bing, make the rules. Get your priorities in line with the right motivations and you will be in line with what Google and Bing want you to do. To Google it is about recognizing patterns in web...
Luckily, there are several options – including Google+ Local, Bing Local, Yelp, Facebook Graph Search, and Yahoo Local – to create a presence for your business and gain that all-important visibility. You have the option of signing in with your...
Last summer, Bing introduced a suite of search apps that "completely reimagined search. Taking cues from the Bing for iPad search app and borrowing from the tiled, "Metro" theme of Windows 8, Bing announced they would take search away from 10 blue...
The tool will currently ping both Bing and Google whenever the sitemaps are updated. The search engine has announced that the Bing Sitemap Plugin is out of beta. While ads used to appear either as either search ads or content ads, the past several...
Google's enhanced campaigns lets advertisers adjust phone bids as a percentage of their desktop/tablet bids in a single campaign; Bing Ads allows for separate targeting by device type at the campaign and ad group level.
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. According to Google's engineers, once you designate a preferred logo using the Organization schema, your logo "may be used in...
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. The Graph Search Bing Connection Microsoft was an early investor in Facebook and Bing has been working closely with Facebook on various social search projects.
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.
Based on a comparison of web search results pane only; excludes ads, Bing's Snapshot and Social Search panes and Google's Knowledge Graph. As Google rolls out its Fiber service in Kansas, Bing has moved into Topeka, just a short drive down I-70...
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). While Google's Panda updates did help define "better...
