Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News app is now customizable, offers offline reading, and supports RSS; Bing Maps now has "improved driving, transit and walking directions, as well as up-to-the minute traffic incidents notifications...
When it comes to global smartphone share, Android leads at 51.2 percent, followed by iOS at 43.5 percent, and Windows at 4.1 percent, Kantar Worldpanel reported. EMarketer report forecasts Yahoo will grow its U.S.search ad revenues by 7 percent to...
AdWords Editor 8.5 for Windows and Mac - Inside AdWords Since the Yahoo & MSN Search Alliance has finalized, many PPC advertisers are just now getting familiar with the Microsoft adCenter system and learning the differences between adCenter and...
MSN-WindowsLiveMicrosoft also slipped in its share of searches, falling to 8.9 percent in July from 9.2 percent in June. Of the core search providers, Google maintained its lead in market share in July, according to data released by comScore.
And here's what comScore qSearch 2.0 found:
billion expanded search queries were conducted at Google in June;
billion expanded search queries were conducted at Yahoo that month;
billion expanded search queries were conducted at YouTube and other...
WindowsLiveSearch Offers Google News AlternativeWindows LiveSearch has added a News component, with a meme-tracker design employed for the front page of the news section. Search Gains on Social Media in Share of Online Video ReferralsHitwise is...
When searchers can't find something on Google, they might turn to another search engine like Yahoo, WindowsLive or Ask. Citigroup's Mark Mahaney upgraded Yahoo from hold to buy, based on the belief that Microsoft will increase its bid to $34 per...
MicrosoftWindowsLive and Yahoo resemble mere shadows of their former selves.comScore qSearch stats for February 2008 showed Americans conducted about 10 billion core searches, a 6 percent drop from January.
MSN WindowsLive Yahoo (22.9 percent) and Microsoft (9.8 percent) had a combined share of searches of 32.7 percent, still not approaching Google if the proposed deal between Microsoft and Yahoo goes through.
Look for engines such as Yahoo and WindowsLive to focus on this area. I believe that the overall division of searchshare won't change much – Google will continue to dominate, but will gain less ground, if any, mostly due to Microsoft.
LiveSearch Maps for Wordpress, WindowsLive Maps Blog Microsoft Offers $1.2 Billion For Norwegian Search CompanyThey may not have Google's market share but Microsoft does not seem to be stopping its acquisition of more properties in the search space.
MSN-WindowsLive Of the 9.4 billon searches performed at the five major engines, Google maintained a 57 percent share over competing search engines Yahoo (23.7 percent); Microsoft (10.3 percent); Ask (4.7 percent); and Time Warner including AOL...
WindowsLive Offering Services PackIn a move similar to Google Pack, Microsoft is now offering a package of its services and apps through the newly announced WindowsLive Services. ShopLocal Adds a Personal TouchThe local product search site will...
Lenovo to Pre-Load WindowsLive Toolbar Yahoo Uses Windows Mobile To Escalate Yahoo Go Reach Google and Microsoft Rumors: Implications for Mobile LocalSearch If you read nothing else from this newsletter, in case you missed it the first time...
Lenovo to Pre-Load WindowsLive Toolbar Yahoo Uses Windows Mobile To Escalate Yahoo Go Reach Google and Microsoft Rumors: Implications for Mobile LocalSearchSearchShare Slipping, But Still Strong - A new Digital Outlook Report from Avenue A...
Lenovo to Pre-Load WindowsLive ToolbarMicrosoft announced its first major distribution deal for WindowsLive services, including desktop access to the WindowsLive portal and a pre-loaded WindowsLive toolbar on Lenovo's computers.
The key advantage for Microsoft is demographic targeting, where advertisers pay a premium bid price to reach a target audience, based on Passport and WindowsLive ID information. For U.K.advertisers, a WindowsLive searcher is 70 percent more...
Microsoft launched LiveSearch for Mobile at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, releasing v 1.0 of its client application for Windows Mobile devices. Yahoo and Microsoft have each launched mobile search and advertising initiatives this week.
Berkowitz Tells NYT about Microsoft's Challenges - Steve Berkowitz, former CEO of Ask.com and now senior VP of Microsoft's Online Services Group, overseeing WindowsLive and MSN speaks with the New York Times.
WindowsLive for TV Enters Public Beta - The latest in the convergence of the Web and traditional broadcast. Google's blog search engine takes over top slot - Google Blog Search tops Technorati in market share.