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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SMX West 2010 Day One Coverage
The first day of SMX West 2010 is in the books, highlighted by Steve Ballmer’s appearance during a keynote conversation with Danny Sullivan. But that was hardly the only thing going on today. Here’s a recap of the SMX West coverage we’ve found; feel free to leave a comment if there’s something we missed.
Google’s Personalized [...]
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Liveblog: Steve Ballmer Keynote At SMX West
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes his first address to the search marketing community today at SMX West in Santa Clara. Danny Sullivan will sit down with Ballmer for a “fireside chat” that will also include time for Q&A from members of the audience.
Speaking of the audience, many of the big names in traditional media will [...]
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What Would You Ask Steve Ballmer About Bing, Microsoft & Search?
Next week, on March 2, I’ll be interviewing Steve Ballmer on stage at our SMX West search marketing conference. This will be Ballmer’s first-ever appearance as a search event. I’m working of my own list of search-specific question to put to him, but I’m also looking for ideas from others. Got a good question you’d [...]
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Microsoft’s Ballmer, Google’s Norvig Keynoting SMX West: See You in Silicon Valley March 2-4!
There’s a fantastic search engine marketing conference in your future. In less than two weeks, the editors of Search Engine Land present Search Marketing Expo – SMX West in Silicon Valley at the Santa Clara Convention Center, March 2-4!
SMX West kicks off on March 2 with an exclusive: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s first conversation [...]
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Bing Gets Dedicated Button On New Windows (7) Phones
This morning in Barcelona, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivered a keynote address at the GSM Mobile World Congress trade show. I’m not there (regrettably) but I watched most of the keynote live online. Nobody’s really used the new Windows Mobile 7 OS yet though it appears to be a significant upgrade from the disappointing 6.5.
The [...]
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Ballmer Blogs His Thoughts On Google, China
Both current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and former CEO Bill Gates have recently spoken out critically about Google’s stance on doing business in China. (See my previous posts, Ballmer Critical Of Google’s China Decision and Like Ballmer, Bill Gates Dings Google On China.)
Now, Ballmer is putting his thoughts in writing … well, electronic writing [...]
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Ballmer Critical Of Google’s China Decision
At a conference in Houston on Thursday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke critically of Google’s recent decision to stop censoring its search results in China. Paraphrasing some of Ballmer’s statements, Forbes says Ballmer called it an “irrational business decision” on Google’s part.
Ballmer suggested that Google’s decision to no longer filter out internet searches objectionable to [...]
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Bing Needs to Say Something Different
If you are easily the number 3 horse in a three horse race does it do you any good to start saying negative things about how you race? Probably not. In fact, it’s probably better for you to act a little more confident, train a little harder and do something that will move you out of the basement.
This horse I am referring to is Microsoft’s Bing. One of the ways that they have decided to move up in the race is to ingest the number 2 horse (Yahoo), which is a decent play but the final product is still very far off. In the meantime it’s best not be saying the following in a Bing forums thread as reported by Search Engine Roundtable, especially if you are Program Manager at Bing Webmaster Center, Brett Yount
It is well known in the industry that MSNbot is fairly slow.
Ok, maybe it is well known to the industry insider but the rest of the world may not have that level of understanding. When you say something like that though now they can and not much good can come from that kind of ‘exposure’.
Bing has had a pretty quiet start to the new year thus far. With all of the talk of mobile devices and mobile ad platforms and things of the future maybe that warrants Bing being left out of the conversation? Whatever the reason, maybe the better way to make the news is to be reporting on upgrades and improvements like the number one horse has been doing for the past three plus months.
Ooops, I forgot. Steve Ballmer was busy promoting Bing at CES this week with inspiring words of innovation like these which I found in Forbes
“More than ever we are delivering the experiences that people want, where they want them, wherever they are,” Ballmer said in his second-ever keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday night. “And of course we Bing we Bing we Bing we Bing Bing Bing all the time, at least in my world.”
I don’t know about you but this kind of ‘activity’ isn’t exactly inspiring me to confidence that Bing may never be more than a distant second with its Bingahoo offering to Google for a very long time.
Your thoughts?
CES: Microsoft Expands Scope Of HP Search Relationship To 42 Countries
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave the opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last night. It was a review of Microsoft accomplishments and product launches during 2009 (e.g., Windows 7, Bing) as well as a preview of some products coming to market (e.g., Project Natal for Xbox) in the future.
Ballmer spent some [...]
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