Articles Tagged - bing

By Jason Tezgerevski, Posted in Facebook News

Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled Facebook's new "social search engine," Graph Search. The extension to Facebook grants its users the ability to enter personalized questions into an integrated search field such as: "Which of my friends watch Grey's Anatomy?" or "My friends who live in Manhattan and like running." The social media network has described this new feature as their third major pillar. The first being Facebook's newsfeed, second as Timeline and now Graph Search! The Graph is a great resource... read more.

• January 16, 2013
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By Jason Tezgerevski, Posted in In the News

As you may have all heard by now, Apple’s iOS 6 Maps app has created quite a stir over the past few weeks. Apple’s new Maps app has a list of shortcomings such as: lack of detail within maps, wrong directions, distorted images, public transportation routes not working, and more. Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook issued an official apology for the company’s half-baked Maps app. Cook wrote that the mobile mapping product “fell short” of the quality he said the company is committed... read more.

• October 02, 2012
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By Elysa Vreeland, Posted in In the News

Microsoft's buying history Microsoft is sure getting a lot of heat for its recent purchase and announcement this morning of acquiring VoIP platform giant, Skype. Microsoft has made some bold moves in the past with purchasing search engine, Bing in 2009 and online advertising firm, aQuantive Inc. for $6 billion in 2007. The company did however avoid acquiring Yahoo Inc. three years ago for a whopping $48 billion and that's a good thing, because Yahoo's worth is half of that today. Microsoft has gambled a b... read more.

• May 10, 2011
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Search Engine Optimization

So much has changed in SEO this past year and ensuring that your business recognizes and understands these changes is an important process in the success of your company in 2011. Welcome to SEO, 3.0!  Just like Web 2.0 describes the newest generation of Internet technologies, SEO 3.0 describes the latest search engine optimization happenings and technologies. SEO 3.0 is vital in keeping businesses current on SEO techniques that will help them succeed.    SEO 3.0, as conceived by M... read more.

• March 31, 2011
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Search Engine News

After Google's algorithm was questioned in the Google Webmaster Forum earlier this month, the search engine giant reported that they do not, in fact, incorporate a "white-list for algorithms", but a recent statement from Matt Cutts proves completely different. Last week at SMX West, Barry Schwartz reported that the head of Google's webspam team, Matt Cutts, answered this very same question during the Spam Police panel. Schwartz describes his answer as long and detailed, but the bottom line is that Google d... read more.

• March 15, 2011
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By Jonathan Morales, Posted in The Future of the Internet

Bing has been working on a variety of new features that will most likely put it in direct competition with Google.  Bing has partnered up with Facebook to include "Likes" in their searches.  Bing also offers sporting ticket information directly from FanShop. They also have gone a step further to improve the image and local area searches as well to make them easier to navigate.  What do I mean by "Likes" in a search?  Simple, if one of your friends's "Likes" a Fan Page or even a comment... read more.

• December 17, 2010
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Search Engine News

In an attempt to gain popularity, the Microsoft search engine striving to break into the industry, Bing, has partnered with Facebook to combine Facebook 'like' data and profile search into its search results.Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg believes that Bing, "the underdog", will make a great partner because of their knowledge and experience in areas that facebook has "no interest in building out around, but are really complex- like search" stated Zuckerberg at a recent press conference.This new feature a... read more.

• November 03, 2010
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Search Engine News

Its official: Yahoo's organic search results are now being powered by Bing. The changes, which began yesterday, August 24th, now mean that the same search engine results will be showing up for both Yahoo and Bing. The search engine results page, or SERP for short, on each site will now be identical since the results for both are coming directly from Microsoft. In terms of SEO, the order in which sites are ranked on each SERP typically varies based on individual search engine algorithms. However, now tha... read more.

• August 25, 2010
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in e-Marketing

What is the search alliance? Yahoo and Microsoft have announced an integration of two popular search engines: Yahoo and Bing. With this integration, Microsoft will now be the sole provider of both paid and organic results for both search engines. Now this is where it gets a bit confusing. You can still go to Yahoo and Bing to search separately but the results will be coming straight from Microsoft for both search engines. So although they will appear to be unconnected, this alliance will, in fact, prod... read more.

• August 12, 2010
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in Facebook News

Facebook redesigns their photo layout! It appears that Facebook is currently testing a new photo format that will allow users to see up to 100 photos on a single page. In addition to the increased number of photos per page, each photo now also appears larger and more detailed than photos previously did. The strange thing about Facebook's newly designed photo format? It looks just like Google's format that was stolen from Bing, as told in my blog ‘Google Images Steals Bing's Design Layout'. The on... read more.

• August 05, 2010
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