Microsoft was called out as the biggest requester as of this month, with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) listed as number two in most requests for May. This month alone, Microsoft has requested a total of 543,378 URLs to be taken down over...
This vanishing act began in the Fall, according to a Microsoft spokesperson: Have you seen Bing Visual Search lately? Probably not. Heck, nobody even noticed it was gone and the www.bing.com/visualsearch link was no longer working until a report...
In the not-so-distant past, we’ve seen a hard-coded Bing Easter Egg declaring Google “more evil than Satan himself;” the Hiybbprqag honeypot drama, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s declaration that Google is just copying Bing.
So year over year, Google sites are up 10.5 percent, Yahoo sites are up 0.8 percent, VEVO is down 10.3 percent, Facebook is down 5.1 percent, and Microsoft sites are down 8.0 percent. In April 2012, Google sites, driven primarily by video viewing...
Google Chrome overtook Microsoft's Internet Explorer to become the world's most popular web browser for a full week for the first time in its history. Chrome overtook IE in early May and unlike previous occasions, has yet to cede top spot back to...
Google’s purchase of Motorola was first announced in August 2011 and is primarily designed to give the firm access to a trove of important mobile and wireless patents to help its protect its Android platform against legal threats from the likes of...
It wouldn't hurt to keep a tinfoil hat handy as well… Look no further than this Microsoft patent that talks about spying on SEO forums. Have a look. Google Penalty or Algorithm Change: Dealing With Lost Traffic – Explains the difference between...
In April, when Yahoo announced thousands of layoffs amidst a massive restructuring, there was much speculation they planned to end the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal and look to Google, instead. Remember when Microsoft wanted to buy Yahoo for $31 a...
Once considered to be close partners in the battle against Microsoft, the two companies found themselves on opposite sides after Google debuted its Android mobile platform. Apple is reportedly planning to bundle a new Maps application with the next...
Mozilla has accused Microsoft of failing in its commitment to give Windows users a choice in browsers, a charge that previously saw Microsoft become the subject of a U.S.antitrust case. The accusations relate to Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8...
The most popular alternative to Google's search engine at the current time, owned by Microsoft. When those of us in search marketing talk and write about link building, we tend to use terms that we think are very commonly understood.
Yahoo is also involved in a patent dispute with Facebook, the threat of which forced Facebook to buy $550 million in patents from Microsoft. Yahoo's leadership dramas refuse to die down after revelations that recently appointed CEO Scott Thompson...
Yahoo and Microsoft offer scale via their own search offerings. The exuberance at the turn of the millennium was a distant memory, and going forward, transparency and accountability would be the law of the land.
As of May 1, Microsoft’s small and medium business brand changed its name to Bing, bringing the name and design in line with the search engine’s homepage. People who use Bing for search are in decision-making mode, Microsoft revealed in a statement...
The only search engine that looks at the keywords anymore is Microsoft's Bing – and they use it to help detect spam. Want top search engine rankings? Just add meta tags and your website will magically rise to the top, right?
The company later made a second strategic transaction when it purchased a series of social networking patents from Microsoft to further strengthen its patent portfolio. Shaun Nichols wrote Facebook IPO could be delayed following Instagram and...
It's being positioned to compete against similar storage services like Apple’s iCloud and Microsoft's SkyDrive. As if trying to quell the disbelievers, Google's announcement blog post read ".yes, really" in the title.
Microsoft and Facebook have announced a whopping $550 million deal under which the social networking giant will be given the right to purchase a portion of the patent portfolio that Microsoft acquired from AOL.
In March 2011, Google sites ranked as the top online video content property with 143.2 million unique viewers, followed by AOL with 57.0 million viewers, Yahoo sites with 56.4 million viewers, Microsoft sites with 53.1 million viewers, and VEVO...
Page dismissed claims that Android was a critical part of the firm's future, as he was questioned by lawyer David Boies, who also cross examined Bill Gates in the 1990s during Microsoft's famous anti-trust lawsuit, Reuters reported.
