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. Microsoft's Bing saw the biggest increase with a total search market share of 17.3...
Google's antitrust case was instigated by competitors including Microsoft. UK price comparison firm Foundem has rejected Google's proposed web search concessions. The concessions come following the European Commission's ongoing antitrust...
If you think about it, with the Microsoft Surface or all HP Touchsmart products, most desktops will act like tablets and vice versa. Mobile traffic continues to grow and become a larger part of everyone's paid search campaigns.
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.
Microsoft was an early investor in Facebook and Bing has been working closely with Facebook on various social search projects. Facebook and Microsoft have a strong partnership. I gained access to Graph Search on January 17, and have completed an...
Yahoo and Microsoft have extended their revenue-per-search guarantee for one year, an extension of a partnership that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had hinted wouldn't continue when the current one expired March 31.
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...
No More Quick View in Google Search – Google Operating SystemGoogle removes the ability to see PDF or Microsoft Office files from the search results. Microsoft beats Google in patent ruling over Xbox technology – the InquirerMicrosoft has won a...
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...
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. We have had to take this action in an effort to protect our business and attract...
Microsoft's search engine Bing has owned a small margin of the search market. Companies known to have complained to the EU include Microsoft. Most recently, the EU has questioned whether Googles's unified privacy policy is legal, and was sued by...
This complaint adds to Microsoft's regulatory attacks on Google, which is already under investigation in Europe for allegedly "anticompetitive" search practices that FairSearch claims gives Google's shopping and travel businesses unfair advantages...
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...
Most SEO professionals will spend time in Microsoft Office. It’s important to stay up to date when you work in search and every SEO should be spending some time each day learning or keeping up with industry news.
Having worked at both major search platforms (Bing Ads and Google AdWords), I've found the more I understand about one system, the more I understand about the other. There must be 101 misconceptions about quality score on blogs and discussion...
We’re constantly updating and refining the Bing search experience," a Microsoft spokesperson told Search Engine Watch. Rather, they seem to highlight the search term. In another search, different results appear.