SEO engineers have long suspected that social media elements have an impact on search engine result pages, with particular reference to Google and Bing. This suspicion was confirmed at the end of 2010, via a Danny Sullivan interview with the two search giants, published on the widely respected SearchEngineLand. So we know that search engines [...]
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Matt Cutts Suggests Bing’s Denial ‘Doesn’t Ring True’
It didn’t take long for Matt Cutts to respond to Yusef Mehdi’s insistence that Bing do not copy search results, posting on his blog yesterday in direct response to Mehdi’s outburst. The post, which also includes a 40 minute video of Matt Cutts (Google) and Harry Shum (Bing) facing off over this very issue (well [...]
SEO News: Bing Categorically Denies Copying Search Results
The ongoing argument between Google and rivals Bing took another twist yesterday, with Yusef Mehdi (Senior Vice President Of Online Services For Microsoft) categorically denying copying search results from Google. In a post published on the Bing Search blog (in reply to Google’s accusation that Bing has been stealing their results), Mehdi stated: It was [...]
Bing Steal Google’s Results And Google Demonstrate They Can Fix Their SERP’s
Well, it’s been quite a day in the world of the search engines. Google, in no uncertain terms, have accused their rival Bing of copying their search results for a myriad of different phrases. It would appear they’re right too (check out Danny Sullivan’s SEL article), as specifically placed honeypot pages (pages returned specifically for [...]
Microsoft and Facebook Collaboration Secure
It seems recently that the dominance of Google has been too much for some. Over that past year or so we have seen Google consistently loose search volume to competitors (all be it small amounts), and despite the astronomical success of Android, it seems like a slight backlash against ‘everything Google’ is developing especially in [...]
Bing And The Wolf
Microsoft have recently shown their latest hand in the search engine battle, an API integration of Wolfram Alpha into Bing. For those of you who don’t know, Wolfram Alpha defines itself a ‘computational knowledge engine’, which is a rather vague title. Rather than providing lists of web pages that may or may not contain the [...]
Mozilla Search Box Deal
Google’s main search rival, Microsoft’s Bing, will soon be given another potential chance to gain on Google. Just as with AOL recently, Mozilla’s deal with Google over the search box in the top right hand corner of their browser is to expire next year. This leaves Mozilla in a very strong bargaining position currently, as [...]
Bing Trumps Google With Street Slide
Microsoft’s Bing is set to gain yet more ground on Google with an updated version of their ‘Street View’ (and their own ‘Streetside’), called “Street Slide”. Street Slide eliminates static single shots to create a smooth panorama; a landscape that ‘slides’ down the road with you and resembles looking out of a car window. If [...]
The Yahoo Search Split
I bet not many of you knew, Yahoo inc. and Yahoo Japan are actually separate companies, and after all, why would you? Yahoo Inc. has a 32% stake in Yahoo Japan, but it is majority owned by a company called Softbank, a Japanese media company. You may have also heard about the new deal between [...]
AOL To Find Another Search Provider?
Providing only a paltry 2.5% of the whole search market, you wouldn’t think that this story was much of a big deal. However, read on. AOL seem to be considering switching search providers from their current pick, Google. The deal is currently reported to be worth $700m a year, so it’s a fair bet AOL [...]
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