At one point, both Overture and MSN were competing to purchase AltaVista, and ultimately ended up being acquired by Yahoo when they bought Overture in 2003. Yahoo, as part of their efforts to focus on specific web properties, has decided to close...
Microsoft sites, includes Bing (which processes 92 percent of all queries to Microsoft sites according to comScore), plus other Microsoft properties recognized as search sites by comScore, including MSN, Windows Live (i.e.
Bing was launched in May 2009 as a fundamental upgrade from Microsoft's previous efforts into search, MSN Search. Search engines – webmasters and search engine optimization (SEO) professionals follow their guidelines for the highest possible...
The company's new Genome offering combines the huge inventory capacity of the network it's formed with AOL and MSN with Yahoo data and an added layer of third-party data from Yahoo-owned Interclick. Yahoo said the system will combine its...
MSN reports families plan to spend more on Mom this year, with the average Mother’s Day gift expected to reach $152, up 8 percent over last year. The logo links to search results for “Mother’s Day. The search company released the above version...
It powered MSN search and was eventually acquired by Yahoo for $240 million. Inktomi back in the day was one of the biggest powers on the Internet, it was even the top search engine for some time. Yahoo was Inktomi's biggest customer and began...
A free Excel Plugin that brings in keyword data including volumes, additional keywords and other data from MSN AdCentre. It always seems confusing that there are two Google tools showing search trends – Insights and Trends with the later linking to...
Through Microsoft Ad Intelligence, MSN has been giving away some actual numbers for years. As an SEO, I find myself doing a lot of key phrase research and the tools of the trade seem like they change as fast as the search algorithms themselves.
Clearly, Google Adwords has more than a 2:1 advantage in market share, but many companies miss the enormous opportunity that lies in MSN. As I've previously written, an MSN campaign can be created in just 15 minutes and often offers cheaper CPC's...
Interestingly, he notes, “MSN is the number #1 news source every time, in our study. This was true in every case; almost a third of the page results were MSN. A number of key differences in Google and Bing’s search results for breaking or trending...
Eric Hadley, general manager of worldwide marketing for Bing and MSN, told us in January, “We are very pleased with the growth of our Twitter handle – our Twitter base has grown nearly 50 percent in the last six months.
If you have a Yahoo or MSN rep, they’ll help with this process. Following the above steps, working closely with your search engine reps and maintain a watching brief should put you in a good position to cope with the change.
We also spoke with Eric Hadley, general manager of worldwide marketing for Bing and MSN and Michael Donnelly, director of worldwide interactive marketing at Coca-Cola, about their experience with Twitter’s new enhanced profile pages and offered...
I've got Facebook, Twitter, Skype, AIM, MSN, forums, a blog, email, the phone and (here comes the shocker) live human interaction. For the past couple weeks, a select gathering of us (likely including many Search Engine Watch readers) have been...
While Yahoo/MSN occupy a combined 30 percent search market share (compared to Google’s 65 percent), don’t expect a 50 percent boost in search volume when launching these campaigns. MSN now allows for quick import of AdWords Bulk Sheets.
Not that anyone is keeping track, but Google’s Messenger name change (hello, MSN! Google added new Search features and a “Save this search” button. As Google+ moves into open beta and anyone can join the network, a slew of new features are rolling...
Second, Bing has included a new video section that, according to their blog post, “brought together millions of videos from across the web – from Hulu, MSN, Youtube and a slew of other sources. The features include information about movies, a new...
Bing sends searchers to either MSN sites or Bing Image Search. Google Insights for Search: The Royal Wedding Google in March announced that it is powering the search results for the Official Royal Wedding site.
SEOBook Back Link Analyzer: A free downloadable tool that pulls backlink data from Google, MSN, and Yahoo, crawls the linking pages, and builds a table of information about each link including follow status, number of outbound links, page title...
However, Bing is now no longer a search partner with Etao, although it continues to have presence under MSN's portal in China. Alibaba Groups's Etao, a vertical shopping search engine in China, made headlines when it launched last October by using...
