Tag Archives: Yahoo

Friday, 29 January 2010

Bing Continues to Grow Market Share Ahead of Yahoo Partnership

By William Tyree
ccording to Comscore data for December 2009, upstart search engine Bing continued to grow market share at the end of last year. Bing searches were up 70% from Microsoft’s previous product, LiveSearch, a year earlier.
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Saturday, 09 January 2010

Bing Sends Mixed Signals on Directory Indexation and NoFollow Rules

By William Tyree
In a Bing community forum for Web publishers this week, a community member asked what he should do to get Bing to index his site pages more quickly. Program Manager Brett Yount verified an answer that advised community members to create backlinks to the Web site from sites that are indexed daily.
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Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Top Search Marketing Stories for 2010

By William Tyree
There were arguably more significant changes for search marketers during 2009 than in any previous year. However, most of these stories aren’t over yet. Staying abreast of all these issues will be essential to being competitive in the coming year.
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Friday, 04 September 2009

The Expanding Search Universe

By William Tyree
StatCounter recently announced that August was Bing’s slowest month in terms of growth since its launch, and the combined market share of Bing and Yahoo fell from 20.36% to 20.14%. Despite this grim review on the waning influence of Bing and Yahoo in North America, the global search engine industry is booming.
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Thursday, 27 August 2009

Bing Search vs. Yahoo: Making Sense of the Nonsense

By William Tyree
This week Yahoo announced that, despite the two companies’ deal in which Bing is set to replace Yahoo’s search, the two companies will continue to compete.
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