Bing deepens Facebook integration, connecting searchers with friends
CNET
Microsoft is making yet another attempt to deeply integrate Facebook into its Bing searchexperience as a way to gain some ground on archrival Google. Today, the software giant introduced an update to Bing, adding a new column to search results that ...
Bing gets more social about search with its makeover
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais Microsoft's Bing is taking an in-your-Facebook approach to search with a big overhaul to incorporate the expertise of the people in your social networking circle. "Today we are taking a big step forward as we begin rolling out what ...
CNET
Microsoft is making yet another attempt to deeply integrate Facebook into its Bing searchexperience as a way to gain some ground on archrival Google. Today, the software giant introduced an update to Bing, adding a new column to search results that ...
Bing gets more social about search with its makeover
Los Angeles Times
By Michelle Maltais Microsoft's Bing is taking an in-your-Facebook approach to search with a big overhaul to incorporate the expertise of the people in your social networking circle. "Today we are taking a big step forward as we begin rolling out what ...
PCWorld
The “new Bing,” as Microsoft calls it, consists of three columns on the search results page. The far left column is the widest of the three, and lists traditional search links. In the middle, a “Snapshot” pane shows relevant information directly on the ...
Bing to battle Google with Facebook-friendly format
Fox News
SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft's Bing search engine is heading in a new direction as it drills deeper into Facebook's social network and Twitter's messaging service to showcase information unlikely to be found on Google. The changes, unveiled Thursday, ...
Bing to Be Revamped in War for Search Engine Supremacy
New York Times
It is the result of a continual conversation at the company about how to make Bing a more effective competitor to that other search engine — Google — and try to stem its considerable losses. In its last fiscal year, Microsoft reported operating ...
New York Times
Google Search Results Protected by First Amendment, Report Says
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo are well within their First Amendment rights to pick and choose what type of search results they display - much like media outlets and publishers make editorial decisions, according to a ...
Bing fires at Google with new social search
CNN
By David Goldman @CNNMoneyTech May 10, 2012: 1:43 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Microsoft is launching a major overhaul of its also-ran search engine Bing on Thursday, aiming at a weakness it sees in market leader Google. The most prominent new element ...
Microsoft Just Blew Google Away In Social Search (MSFT, GOOG)
San Francisco Chronicle
The other shoe has dropped on Microsoft's recent Bing redesign, and it dropped right on Google. Microsoft is adding a new Sidebar to Bing search that shows your contacts and activity on all your social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, ...
What Makes Google Different (And Unsettling) And Still A Model For Others?
Forbes
So Microsoft is taking another shot at Google with its revamp of Bing. The new Bing will not, however, make Microsoft a social, or elastic company. It will not move Microsoft on from its past, into the platform and ecosystem world.
Forbes
Google Can Prioritize Its Products in Search, Says Legal Expert
Mashable
Can Google and other search engines prioritize self-promoting results in search — and still enjoy constitutional protection under the First Amendment? Yes, according to a report commissioned by Google from professor Eugene Volokh, ...
Major Bing Redesign Searches Your Friends and Experts
PC Magazine
By Mark Hachman Microsoft dramatically revamped its Bing search results page on Thursday, adding a "sidebar" that will allow users to interact with knowledgeable friends on a variety of topics. The new Bing UI will roll out in the next few weeks, ...
Microsoft Redesigns Bing To Beat Google At Its Own Game
Forbes
This is something Google has obviously known for awhile, implementing social search and returning results that are endorsed by friends who have +1′d that website or article. Today, Binghas announced it's ready to really play the social search game ...
Google's 'Sources' Displays Search Results with More Info Upfront
PCWorld (blog)
By Jared Newman, PCWorld May 10, 2012 8:31 AM Google is testing a new type of search result that provides extensive topic information alongside the usual list of links. As Search EngineLand reports, the information appears in a boxed-out area to the ...
Google, Alert: Bing Wants "To Model Every Object On The Planet," Reinvent Search
Fast Company
"We decided we needed to reinvent search,” Bing director Stefan Weitz tells Fast Company. When Google was created over a decade ago, the Internet was basically a set of pages. Google's innovation was to develop a system that would locate what pages ...
Fast Company
Microsoft, Facebook are collaboration pals: Will the new Bing deliver market ...
ZDNet (blog)
By Larry Dignan | May 10, 2012, 10:56am PDT Summary: Microsoft and Facebook sound like a match made in search heaven. But the returns on the new Bing are far from complete without market share gains vs. Google. The latest Bing is billed as a great ...
Microsoft Bing deepens Facebook ties, challenges Google with new 'social sidebar'
msnbc.com
Microsoft Thursday previewed a new version of its Bing search engine, with elements including a “social sidebar” that lets users quickly tap the knowledge of their Facebook friends for advice and information related to a search — getting new insights ...
Microsoft Redesigns Bing in Bid to Win Share From Google
BusinessWeek
(MSFT) (MSFT) plans to unveil a new design for its Bing Internet search engine to make results more social by listing related functions and content from a user's friends, without encroaching on regular query results. The new design, being introduced in ...
Bing Redesign: Google Rival Plays Up More Social Search (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
Microsoft has unveiled a major redesign for its search engine Bing, centered around the theme 'Search Goes Social.' The Next Web explains how the new design will consist of three columns - the standard search column, a snapshot column with data to help ...
Google and Facebook Will Both be Front and Centre in 'Social Search'
MarketWatch (press release)
Greenlight's research revealed 5% would 'definitely' use a future Facebook search engine if the firm were to launch one to rival Google's. The other extreme, those categorically saying that they simply would not use a future Facebook search engine, ...
Microsoft redesigns Bing, plays up Facebook link
Reuters
| SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp unveiled a new design on Thursday for its second-rankedBing search engine, introducing elements from Facebook and other social networks, as it tries to claw market share from leader Google Inc. Slow off the mark in ...
To keep fighting Google, Microsoft adds more Facebook into Bing
ZDNet (blog)
By Emil Protalinski | May 10, 2012, 11:45am PDT Summary: Microsoft has delivered on its promise to keep using Facebook in Bing to fight Google. The company has announced yet another revamp to Bing that includes even more Facebook, but is that enough?
Report Says Google's Search Is Protected By First Amendment Rights
RedOrbit
In the report, Volokh says, “Google, Microsoft's Bing, Yahoo! Search and othersearch engine companies are rightly seen as media enterprises, much as the New York Times Company or CNN are media enterprises,” giving them the right to the same types of ...
RedOrbit
Forget Market Share - Microsoft Says Bing Is Doing Great! (MSFT, GOOG, YHOO)
San Francisco Chronicle
Bing chief Qi Lu doesn't worry that much about Bing's low market share versus Google. At an event today announcing Bing's new social networking sidebar and other changes, Lu said that he and Microsoft consider market share to be a "lagging indicator.
Bing Reinvents Social Search and Discovery
Mashable
It even offers a way to ask questions on your favorite social network, directly through Bing. It's something of an about-face for the Number 2 search engine, which up until earlier this year has been slowly but surely integrating Facebook information ...
Bing and Facebook Team Up to Take on Google in Social Search
AdAge.com
In what's shaping up to be a drawn-out battle to develop a social-search engine that consumers love, Bing has unsheathed a critical weapon: Facebook. Microsoft's search engine unveiled today what it's calling the first major update since Bing launched ...
Bing Makes Search More Social With Facebook and Twitter Results
ABC News (blog)
Microsoft is aiming to make its search engine the most social way to search the web. Today the company announced the next version of its Bing search engine, which is being entirely revamped with a three-pane interface. The first pane, located on the ...
ABC News (blog)
Bing's Biggest Redesign Yet Puts Pure Algorithmic Results Up Front, Sticks ...
TechCrunch
Microsoft is looking to take advantage of public discontent with Google recent missteps in design and social. Bing aims to frame Google as impure, with its desire to highlight Google+ distorting the quality of search result ranking.
New Bing calls on Facebook and Twitter to beat Google's Search Plus Your World ...
The Verge
The pitch sounds just like Google's plan for Search Plus Your World, which peppers yoursearch results page with content from Google+, the company's social network. Microsoft's doing a few things differently: it's including social data from Facebook, ...
Google Testing Semantic Search Update | Search Engine Journal
By David Angotti
google semantic search results tested In March, Search Engine Journal reported that Googlewas planning on making drastic algorithmic changes to provide its users with better searchresults. The changes, which are primarily focused on ...
Search Engine Journal
SEO/Google: Will Your Website "Be Found" by Prospective ...
By Jared S. Smith
Defined by Wikipedia, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the “natural” or un-paid (“organic” “algorithmic”) search results. Basically, when your website is well optimized it significantly increases the chances a prospective customer will be able to find your products, services or information when conducting searches on major search engines like Google, Yahoo or Bing. The largest of the search ...
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New Bing calls on Facebook and Twitter to beat Google's Search ...
By Ellis Hamburger
"90 percent of people consult with a friend or expert before making a decision," Microsoft says in promotional materials for the new Bing, announced today and rolling out over the next few weeks. The pitch sounds just like Google's plan for ...
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Microsoft Just Blew Google Away In Social Search - Business Insider
By Matt Rosoff
Bing will show activity on ALL your social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and — yes — Google+. ... And it's using this access to trump Google in social search. The Sidebar separates social data from your main search results -- unlike what Google does with Google+. It also includes a real-time activity feed, and will ... Summary. Bing is a search engine from Microsoft. On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo!Search. More » ...
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Google Universal Search: 3 Steps You Should Take To Stand Out ...
By Aura Dozescu
Let's imagine now that this is a search engine results list and each golf tee represents an entry. Even if it's not on the first position, I bet all eyes are on the white tee. That's the magic of GoogleUniversal Search, where traditional organic results ...
Advanced Web Ranking Blog
The New Bing Makes Google Look Anti-Social
By Jon Mitchell
For signed-in Facebook users, Bing now has a social search component that should sendGoogle back to the drawing board. It's called ... Google was the first search engine to start rolling multimedia stuff right into the search results. Google's ...
ReadWriteWeb
Google's Penguin Update Punishes Webspammers | Kelowna Web ...
By Sarah Bauer BA English Literature
Since its April 24th 2012 launch, SEO experts and website owners have flocked to web forums, speculating on the impact of the new change, and offering advice for how to tailor content for the update. Yes, the rank-changing ... I mentioned that an updated version would be launched in April (http://www.kelownawebdesigns.com/search-engine-optimization/the-google-panda-eats-shoots-and-tweets-new-algorithm-changes/), and Cutts' team held to its promise. With Panda3.5 pushing ...
Kelowna Web Designs
Google Pays Legal Scholar To Argue Search Rankings Are Free ...
By Jon Christian
In response to an anti-trust investigation into whether the company has fudged search results to edge out competitors, search giant Google commissioned UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh to pen a legal defense, based on the First ...
tech.li
Penguin Update Targets Link Schemes and Low ... - SEO-e blog
By admin
Google's much anticipated “over-optimization” algorithm update has been released. It was originally thought this new update would be called “Venice.” But in keeping the tradition of other updates that were named for animals (…think Panda), ...
SEO Eblog by SEO Advantage, Inc.
Google Places Listings | Google Places
By James Dreesen
For a better idea of Google's grip on the search market, take a look at the chart. It is amazing thatGoogle gets over two times the amount of traffic that Bing and Yahoo! get combined. All of this makes it understandable why the Google Places ...
GP Pros - Google Places Optimization...
Google Announces 50 New Search Quality Changes | ineedhits
By Courtney Mills
You might recall that April saw the release of Penguin, Google's latest ranking algorithm update (not to be confused with Panda). More spelling corrections are to be added globally to the search engine. The same type of autocomplete spelling ...
ineedhits
Google Starting to Hint at Its Semantic Search Future - semanticweb ...
By Angela Guess
Sharif Sakr of Engadget reports that Google has started to peek-a-boo it's evolving semanticsearch capabilities. Sakr writes, “So, Google wasn't merry-dancing when it promised to update its search engine with new 'semantic' algorithms.
semanticweb.com
Ubuntu and Tech news: Google's 'Sources' Displays Search Results ...
By Rambling Johnny
By Jared Newman, PCWorld May 10, 2012 8:31 AM Google is testing a new type of search result that provides extensive topic information alongside the usual list of links. As Search Engine Land reports, the information appears in a boxed-out ...
Ubuntu and Tech news
WordPress › Google Plus Author Information in Search Result ...
We've built another easy and free wordpress plugin. It will show ones author information (profile picture and name) in the Google search results.
wordpress.org/.../google-author-information-in-search-results-...
Opening Google Search results for music in PowerAMP - Android Forums
Is it possible to have Google Search open music files via PowerAmp instead of the default player? Or is it possible to have Android Music (default.
androidforums.com/.../545265-opening-google-search-results-...
No Google search suggestion. You can help. - Opera for Windows ...
One day, I created Google search for the search providers in Opera, and deleted the built in ...But the problem is the new Google Search doesn't provide search ...
my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1379592
Search Engine Marketing Secrets - You Missed The Google Panda ...
A week ago tonight, Google pushed out a small, almost unnoticeable Panda refresh. Most SEOs didn't notice but we did notice something and reported the flux ...
seo.daedalusautomotive.com/.../you-missed-the-google-panda-...
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