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...
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. The frequency at which Bing released "parity...
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).
Google will take 73.7 percent of U.S.search ad revenues, while Microsoft will reach 9.3 percent, Yahoo will have 6.2 percent, and AOL will account for 1.1 percent. EMarketer predicts Google will remain the leader in display ad revenues in 2013 with...
Ask Speakers Jason Dailey and Brian Utter of Microsoft. Yahoo Bing Network Ads 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...
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...
The Yahoo-Microsoft search deal isn't working as planned, according to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Years before Mayer came onboard, Yahoo signed a 10-year deal with Microsoft that handed over control of its organic results to Bing and paid search...
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...
Yandex surpassed Microsoft on the number of monthly search queries worldwide in November and December 2012, according to a recently released comScore qSearch report. Microsoft sites processed 4.477 billion queries and Yandex did 4.844 billion.
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.
Microsoft sites accounted for 2.7 billion searches. Yahoo dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 12.1 percent, while Ask.com and AOL.com also saw slight drops – to 3 percent (down from 3.2 percent) and 1.7 percent respectively (down from 1.8...
Microsoft Surface If you were thinking of stabbing yourself in the eye after reading the data from Yahoo's 2012 search trends, we don't blame you. Today, Google published their search trend data as an interactive summary called, as always, Zeitgeist.
Add to that the deal between Microsoft and Yahoo for Bing to power Yahoo’s organic results and Bing powers over 25 percent of search. With the Microsoft/Yahoo alliance also came the affect that Yahoo's paid search platform would be used to power...
Dailey, Director, Bing Evangelism at Microsoft Advertising, “We just launched the Bing Ads Sweepstakes is to help us grow our community, get the Bing Ads and Yahoo Bing Network brands in front of the industry in a fun way.
