Facebook has finally entered the Search war with Google. With the acquisition of Microsoft’s Bing search engine, the company will be head to head with Google and is expected to bypass the search giant within a year. See official statement.
Tag Archives: Bing
Facebook acquires Bing
Posted by Alex Costa
on April 1, 2011
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Microsoft’s Street Slide View is so unMicrosoft
Posted by Alex Costa
on July 30, 2010
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Microsoft Research Street slide View managed to do what Google’s Street View failed to do.. oops “is missing”. After watching the video my only comment was, wow this is so unMicrosoft, this is cool. Microsoft Research has not yet announced if and when it will be making it to the Bing Maps, or any Microsoft products. But for now you can see a quick demo of how it works.
Microsoft’s attempt to bribe its way to the top
Posted by Alex Costa
on December 11, 2009
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Once again Microsoft is showing it’s dirty claws. According to a report in the Financial Times (also mentioned in the KPMRS Blog), Microsoft is planing to offer to pay publishers to remove their content from Google in an attempt to make its search engine Bing (no link on purpose) the #1 search engine.
According to the FT, one website publisher approached by Microsoft said that the plan “puts enormous value on content if search engines are prepared to pay us to index with them”. – extracted
I cannot believe the greedy minds in the media industry are already thinking about embracing it. Again Microsoft has gotten it all wrong, will they ever learn? Attitudes like this will only promote two things, firstly the dissemination of online content theft, were people will republish full content of paid websites to drive traffic to their sites/blogs and secondly it will take away the choice that users now have of using any search engine they like. This is so “un-internet”!
I agree with the comment on the KPMRS blog by blogger Greg (null pointer) who said:
“How about instead of Microsoft spending millions to make their search results appear (artificially) better than Google’s, they spend that same money to create better search algorithms? That’s real competition!” – extracted
Keyword search and website ranking tools
Posted by Alex Costa
on June 5, 2009
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Any webmaster and marketer will know how important it is to keep track of their website ranking, keyword positioning, visits, ROI and so on… There are a lot of interesting tools out there to help us.
- Google Analytics – Visitor tracking, keyword positioning, goal setting, demographics and more…
- http://www.alexa.com – web traffic metrics, top sites lists, site demographics, hot urls, and more…
- Google Webmaster Tools – detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google
- Yahoo Site Explorer – detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Yahoo
- Bling Webmaster Center – detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Bling (former LiveSearch)
- Keyword Spy – Research and track keywords in 3 search engines and 30+ countries.
- KPMRS – website rank monitoring services on various search engines
for multiple keywords. - XML-Sitemaps – Generate sitemaps online. Up to 500 urls Free.
- WP Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog.
These are just a few tools I use the most, please share yours.
