Our latest Geek of the Week, Jacquelyn Krones, is a true research geek — the type of person who loves digging into data and, better yet, being surprised by what she finds. She studies consumer needs, and figures out what those needs mean for the development of a product. And the product in her case is Bing, the… Read More…
Our guest this past week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast was Rand Fishkin, the CEO of SEOmoz, the Seattle-based search-engine optimization software company. We talked about subjects including Google+ and the search giant’s competition with Facebook; Microsoft Bing and its competition with Google; and Google’s “Panda” update and its impact on websites. If… Read More…
Microsoft today is releasing an update for its well-received Bing app for Apple’s iPad, with a new feature designed to streamline the process of conducting online searches on the touch-screen device. The feature is called “Lasso.” Users will activate it by pressing an icon in the upper right of the app, then circle a phrase… Read More…
Microsoft today confirmed an expanded partnership with China’s largest search engine, Baidu, to provide English search results to Baidu users in the country. The arrangement promises to give the Redmond company’s Bing search engine a bigger role in the world’s most populous nation. Microsoft, which previously partnered with Baidu on paid search results, issued this… Read More…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s positive comments about the company’s financial outlook during his Seattle Rotary Club appearance yesterday appear to be causing a minor stir in the stock market today, lifting Microsoft shares by about 1 percent. The Redmond company’s fiscal year ends today, so it’s easy to see why the numbers were on Ballmer’s… Read More…
It’s official: Google just filed a public notice acknowledging that its business practices are under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. “On June 23, 2011, Google Inc. received a subpoena and a notice of civil investigative demand from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) relating to a review by the FTC of Google’s business practices, including… Read More…
More than five years ago, Mike Fridgen, Oren Etzioni and others transformed the way people purchased airline tickets on the Web by telling shoppers the best time to buy. Their Seattle startup, Farecast, sold to Microsoft for $115 million in 2008 and today serves as the backbone of Bing Travel. Now, Fridgen, Etzioni and some of… Read More…
For years, marketers wondered how their products or services would play in Peoria. Now, is Portland becoming that marketing hotspot for the digital generation? Google thinks so, choosing the Rose City for the roll out of its new Google Offers daily deal service. “There’s no end to the city’s great restaurants, coffee shops, hot spots… Read More…
Microsoft today rolled out a new version of its Streetside feature for Bing Maps that is getting some credit for at least taking a different approach than Google’s Street View. The biggest change is the elimination of the 360-degree “bubble” view in favor of an approach that flattens out the images into a long horizontal… Read More…
Sparkbuy founder Dan Shapiro doesn’t like talking to people on airplanes. But on a trip between Silicon Valley and Seattle late last year, the entrepreneur started a conversation with the guy sitting next to him, which happened to be Google’s Matt Klainer. That chance encounter, along with a previous meeting with Google Kirkland site director… Read More…
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