Microsoft revealed a few new logo design concepts during a Design Day presentation in Norway, including a white and gold "boomerang" logo for its Bing search engine: Or you can check out the full 45 minute "Re-Imagining of Microsoft" presentation...
Microsoft beats Google in patent ruling over Xbox technology – the InquirerMicrosoft has won a $1.8 million ruling in the first of two patent lawsuits against Google's Motorola Mobility over the use of its technology in the Xbox console.
Wavvii was founded by former Microsoft employee Adrian Aoun in 2009 and has raised around $2 million in seed funding so far. Google has acquired news summarization start-up Wavii for more than $30 million.
Are these changes significant enough to appease rival companies such as Microsoft? The European Commission is now seeking feedback on Google's cosmetic search result changes that aim to settle a years-long antitrust investigation.
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...
The service has already been trialed by a number of firms, including Everything Everywhere, Microsoft Japan, Walgreens, and GoPro. Twitter has tweaked the way it deals with advertising, enabling promoted tweets to be placed in users' timelines...
It was one of those moments in time I bet many Microsoft executives would like to revisit. The day they decided that Bing Ads (formerly known as Microsoft adCenter) had to be different from AdWords. Microsoft had the resources to challenge Google...
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).
The European Commission (EC) has been investigating Google's alleged "anticompetitive" internet search service since 2010, after a number of companies lead by Microsoft complained that Google was abusing its dominant position in the internet...
Google foes FairSearch, made up of Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle among others, filed a complaint accusing Android of being a "Trojan Horse" and promoting Google apps. Google is the subject of yet another anti-competitiveness complaint, this one from...
Companies known to have complained to the EU include Microsoft. Microsoft's search engine Bing has owned a small margin of the search market. Most recently, the EU has questioned whether Googles's unified privacy policy is legal, and was sued by...
Microsoft is on the attack again, this time slamming Google Play for the information it shares when users buy apps. The attack ads coincide with another European antitrust complaint orchestrated by Microsoft relating to Google's Android software.
EMarketer predicts Google will remain the leader in display ad revenues in 2013 with $3.11 billion in 2013, followed by Facebook ($2.75 billion), Yahoo ($1.37 billion), Microsoft ($760 million) and AOL ($540 million).
Most SEO professionals will spend time in Microsoft Office. If you’re at work, you know there are things that you could be doing right now to improve your website’s SEO. Chances are you probably have a social network open in another browser tab...
There must be 101 misconceptions about quality score on blogs and discussion forums right now. Ultimately, quality score is a useful tool with which you can prioritize opportunities and optimizations.
We’re constantly updating and refining the Bing search experience," a Microsoft spokesperson told Search Engine Watch. SEOs have been saying that authorship markup and other rich snippets are the future of SEO.
Ask Speakers Jason Dailey and Brian Utter of Microsoft. As a PPC expert, I naturally gravitate toward the paid search sessions to get my regular dose of tips and takeaways. Three sessions featured at this year's SES New York conference are...
Microsoft recently used a hashtag on Facebook, the logo #Reborn, in a graphic to announce the relaunch of its "Tomb Raider" video game. Although there has been no official announcement or comment by the social media giant, the long-rumored idea of...
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...
