Bing’s Market Share Up For Third Straight Month: Hitwise
Just last week at SMX West, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said his short-term goal for Bing is to gain a point here or a tenth there — to chip away and slowly increase its share of the search market. The latest numbers from Experian Hitwise show that Bing is doing exactly that.
Hitwise shows Bing gaining [...]
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Bing, Yahoo Discussing Future Of Yahoo Site Explorer
One more piece of news from the “Ask the Search Engines” session at SMX West on Thursday: Yahoo and Bing are in the midst of discussions to decide the future of Yahoo’s popular Site Explorer seo tool.
Yahoo’s Arnab Bhattacharjee told conference attendees that the two companies are now going through discussions on how to transition [...]
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Yahoo Updates Desktop Search Marketing Tool
During SMX West this week, Yahoo announced an update to its Yahoo Search Marketing Desktop tool for managing PPC campaigns. If you weren’t at the show to see it yourself, this Yahoo blog post details some of the upgrades that are now available:
Bulk editing: Easily make mass changes to settings such as status, match types [...]
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Bing & Yahoo Soon To Support Canonical Tag
More than a year since the three major search engines united to announce the canonical tag, neither Bing nor Yahoo formally support it. But that could be changing soon.
Speaking during the “Ask the Search Engines” session at SMX West on Thursday, reps from both search engines said they’re in the process of supporting rel=canonical right [...]
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SMX West 2010 Day Three Coverage
Day three of SMX West 2010 is in the books, and that wraps up the main conference portion this year’s event. (There are in-depth training sessions on Friday.) We live-blogged today’s keynote, and a variety of bloggers and webmasters covered the rest of the day’s sessions and news. Here’s a recap of the SMX West [...]
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Liveblog: SMX West 2010 Keynote – The State Of The Search Union
It’s day three of SMX West 2010, and we’re going to kick off with a group keynote conversation called “The State Of The Search Union.” The description hints that we’ll be talking about where the industry is today, and where it’s going in the future. No doubt the Microsoft-Yahoo deal will be a big discussion [...]
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SMX West 2010 Day Two Coverage
The second day of SMX West 2010 is in the books, and here are links to our own coverage of the day’s keynote:
Liveblog: SMX West 2010 Keynote – An Insider’s Look At Google Research
Google’s Norvig: PageRank Is Overhyped
But there was much more going on during the individual sessions. Here’s a recap of the SMX West [...]
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It’s Official: Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX URLs is Live
Today at SMX West, Maile Ohye from Google confirmed that Google is indeed now crawling AJAX pages that use the standard proposed last Fall. The documentation is live on Google Code and you can also take a look at my recent article about how to implement the standard and its pros and cons. Maile mentioned [...]
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Google’s Norvig: PageRank Is Overhyped
Speaking today at SMX West in Santa Clara, Google’s Director of Research, Peter Norvig, said that PageRank is overhyped and probably needs a new name.
His comments came during the morning keynote session in a conversation with Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman.
After being asked about search technologies that he thinks are over-hyped, Norvig [...]
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Liveblog: SMX West 2010 Keynote – An Insider’s Look At Google Research
It’s day two of SMX West 2010 in a rainy Santa Clara, California, and we’ll be liveblogging today’s keynote session. Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman will be chatting on the big stage with Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Research. We’re expecting some sneak peeks at future Google products and technology, so come [...]
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