Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have revised the landmark search alliance struck by their predecessors nearly six years ago — loosening the ties between the companies in the process. “Over the… Read More
BusinessInsider’s Nicholas Carlson has a very interesting take on what is wrong with Google, and it essentially boils down to one thing: Amazon. In an article published today, Carlson tries… Read More
A confidential report prepared by staffers at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission found that Google took product rankings from Amazon and other companies like Yelp and TripAdvisor to improve its… Read More
Yahoo’s deal with Mozilla to become the default search provider for U.S. Firefox users has paid off. The company handled almost 11 percent of all U.S. search referrals in January, the… Read More
REDMOND, Wash. — Speaking this morning at a “Bing Ads Next” event, Microsoft VP Rik van der Kooi talked about the company’s ongoing efforts to take the concept of search into… Read More
One of the great annoyances of using a mobile device to search the web has been encountering websites in foreign languages. After all, it’s easy enough to copy and paste… Read More
Amazon.com is competing with Google in a number of arenas, from phones to cloud services to drones. But this could be a classic example of “co-opetition.” An analysis released today… Read More
Peter Mansour, who led eBay’s Bellevue operation and served as the company’s vice president of shipping and marketing technologies, has been named president of InfoSpace, the Internet search business that’s… Read More
Hundreds of Internet and mobile search marketers are gathering in Seattle this week for SMX Advanced, learning about the latest search-engine optimization techniques and strategies for higher rankings in search results.… Read More
Microsoft’s Bing search engine, after using data to successfully forecast the results of American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and The Voice, will now test its predictive abilities on a contest with an even more passionate fan… Read More
Apple is further distancing itself from Google and expanding its relationship with Microsoft Bing in the next version of Mac OS X, Yosemite, unveiled earlier today and scheduled for broad… Read More
Microsoft has rolled out a custom Bing search engine for schools, allowing administrators to enable an ad-free version of Bing with privacy controls and filters that block adult content. Microsoft first debuted this program… Read More
One of the most popular features of the old Farecast travel search engine has taken its last voyage. MIcrosoft, which paid $115 million for the Seattle-based company six years ago… Read More
Marissa Mayer has been clear about her dissatisfaction with Yahoo’s Microsoft search partnership in the past — saying at last year’s Goldman Sachs technology conference that the partnership needed to… Read More
Shares of Expedia took a hit last month after SearchEngineLand reported that the Bellevue online travel giant had lost about 25 percent of its search visibility on Google after it was… Read More
Move over, Kim Kardashian — your time as the queen of Bing is over. That title now belongs to Queen Bey, a.k.a. Beyonce Knowles. On Sunday, Bing released its top searches… Read More
It has been more than three months since Steve Ballmer announced his plans to retire as CEO of Microsoft, setting off a wave of speculation about who could fill his… Read More
The days of watching music videos through the tube on MTV are long gone. Now, most of those clips are uploaded online, and Bing wants to make it easier for… Read More
Microsoft’s Bing is still far behind Google. Can a new logo help? Microsoft hopes so, and they’ve just rolled a new logo and design for their search brand, part of… Read More
The Scrooglers have struck again. First it was Google Shopping, then came Gmail which was followed by Google Play. Now, Microsoft’s latest attack on Google comes in the form of education. The new Scroogled… Read More
In 2008, Oren Etzioni sold his airfare price predictor startup Farecast to Microsoft. The Redmond software giant took the technology from Farecast and it became the basis for the price… Read More
People in the United Kingdom who search for child abuse images using Bing will now receive a warning not to do so. Microsoft is the first company in the U.K.… Read More
The monthly U.S. search stats from comScore are out for June and Microsoft continues to grow its search share while Yahoo keeps sliding. Google held the top spot with 66.7 percent market… Read More
Everyone in the ad world is buzzing about Google’s plans to migrate all of its advertisers to Google Enhanced Campaigns, effective July 22. What will it really mean and what… Read More
If you’re traveling on Interstate 5 this Memorial Day Weekend and need directions, Google Maps is going to be your best bet. Why? Well, Google has already updated its map… Read More
Seattle entrepreneur Vanessa Fox has been bootstrapping her search analytics business, Nine by Blue, for the past six years. Today, the former Google employee is cashing out, in part because… Read More
Social media metrics company Klout is making a move into the social question-and-answer space and is getting some distribution help from Bing to make it happen. Klout, a platform which measures… Read More
Microsoft and Yahoo will give their search partnership more time to meet their financial expectations. Microsoft has agreed to extend, for another year, its commitment to cover revenue shortfalls experienced… Read More
Microsoft has finally responded to a study claiming that Bing’s search results delivered five times as much malware than Google’s, and its answer is simple: the study is flawed. Last… Read More
Fairsearch.org, a lobbying group whose backers include Microsoft, Expedia, TripAdvisor and Nokia, has filed objections over Google’s attempts to take control of genric top-level domains such as .search, .fly, .map… Read More
