Google's search market share dropped slightly once again, with Microsoft and Yahoo slightly edging up, according to comScore's April 2013 search engine rankings. However, when comparing year to year, Yahoo and Microsoft are merely swapping market...
Yahoo and Microsoft may have just extended their revenue-per-search guarantee, but Yahoo has apparently been trying to escape its 10-year search deal with Microsoft in order to join forces with Google, according to reports.
However, Microsoft wants the market share that Yahoo provides and they don’t want to potentially lose the deal to another search provider – namely Google. Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their revenue-per-search guarantee for one year, an...
We are also seeing a shift that we hope will be adopted across internet companies more broadly: two Internet companies — Google and Microsoft — have published figures regarding National Security Letters, secretive government demands for user...
Wavvii was founded by former Microsoft employee Adrian Aoun in 2009 and has raised around $2 million in seed funding so far. Google's purchase of the startup follows a similar March deal by Yahoo, when it acquired news aggregator Summly for $30...
Google search manipulation starves some websites of traffic – PCWorldHarvard Business School associate professor Ben Edelman, who is a paid Microsoft consultant, puts out another anti-Google study, this time on flight search, and reports an "85...
Microsoft decided to let Bing Ads users import their Google AdWords accounts directly into Bing Ads. Microsoft had the resources to challenge Google and thankfully for all of us, they did. It was one of those moments in time I bet many Microsoft...
February), followed by Microsoft sites with 3.4 billion (up 13 percent), Yahoo sites with 2.4 billion (up 14 percent), Ask Network with 540 million (up 14 percent), and finally AOL with 321 million (up 5 percent).
EMarketer report forecasts Yahoo will grow its U.S.search ad revenues by 7 percent to $1.23 billion in 2013, but still lose search share to Google and Microsoft. Google will take 73.7 percent of U.S.search ad revenues, while Microsoft will reach...
Ask Speakers Jason Dailey and Brian Utter of Microsoft. The speakers note that the Yahoo Bing Network has 45 million unique searchers that don't use Google, and are likely to spend 22 percent more online than the average Internet searcher in the U.S.
In February 2013, Google sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property with 150.7 million unique viewers, followed by Facebook with 61.2 million, VEVO with 49.5 million, NDN with 46.3 million...
Google sites led the way with 12.3 billion searches (down 6 percent) followed by Microsoft sites with 3 billion searches (down 6 percent), Yahoo sites with 2.1 billion (down 5 percent), Ask Network with 475 million (down 11 percent), and AOL with...
Microsoft’s search engine is still miles behind Google, even when you add in Yahoo’s Bing-powered search market share. As for Yahoo, CEO Marissa Mayer has made no secret that she’s not happy with the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal, which has seen...
While Mayer said that the deal with Microsoft isn't working the way it should, it is hard to see how Yahoo will grow its search market share relative to Google if it doesn't control the search technology it offers.
The deal is non-exclusive, so Yahoo will also continue to display ads from competitors such as Microsoft's Bing. Market participants welcomed the news, confirmed by Yahoo today, that it has signed a global agreement with Google to display its ads...
As you can see in the graph (Google purposely removed for context), Yandex began passing Microsoft in November, but the difference was tiny and initially it could have perceived looking like a statistical error.
In my role at Microsoft, I get to spend a lot of time helping create and optimize paid search strategies for the largest SEM advertisers to the smallest businesses. From my corner of the search marketing industry, there’s been the important news...
In response to the arrival of Google Shopping, Microsoft unveiled an anti-Google campaign telling holiday shoppers they were being “Scroogled" because Google features all paid ads in its shopping results.
Google has seen its share of the UK search market fall to its lowest level in five years as competition from rivals, notably Microsoft's Bing service, continue to erode its lead. By contrast, Microsoft's Bing service saw its year-on-year share...
While our expert admittedly uses bid management tools for all of his clients, he didn't feel like they were as crucial of a tool in daily management as Microsoft Excel, the AdWords Editor, or Analytics.
