So, Cyber Monday has been and gone – but not forgotten, unless you’re using Bing that is.

Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land picked up on the fact that the site of the trade organisation that came up with the concept quite literally got lost on Bing. Read More »

High-quality content is a “competitive must” for businesses looking to up their customer acquisition figures via SEO, especially in Google’s post-Panda realm, according to the marketers at Brafton.

The following infographic shows a case study of a sales management business that increased its organic search traffic, amid Google’s Panda update, by use of frequently updated blog posts and Tweets, while also boosting its number of referring keywords by 150%.

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Everyone loves a good story. Some people read them in linear form, on pages constructed of actual paper (hey! old school!), occasionally raising a mug filled with tea towards their mouths, and making deep, guttural satisfied noises in the back of their throats.

Others consume the narrative piece-by-piece, in mini-snack form, as delicious nuggets of a character-driven plot, each bite-sized chunk squirreled away somewhere inside their phone, laptop, iPad or other carriers of media, until appetite comes calling once again. Read More »

Straight from the Kenneth Cole School of Capitalising On Human Suffering To Promote Your Brand comes Bing‘s #SupportJapan campaign, which this weekend offered to donate $1 to Japanese earthquake victims each time their original post was retweeted.

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Gather round kids, it is time for a story about search engines. In the dim and distant past there were many search engines, but now now there are only two.

Okay, so it’s a short story, but infographic shows how since Yahoo! called it quits and other players such as AltaVista, Infoseek, Lycos, Ask.com and AOL have faded it is now just a battle of two.  Read More »

Are you still playing Angry Birds on your smartphone? I’m somewhat over my addiction (currently Uno is my timewaster of choice) so I’ve only just updated Angry Birds Seasons — now on its Valentine’s Day edition — and seen its tie-up with Bing.

If you don’t play Angry Birds, or if you’re so good at it that you never fail to win, what happens is that this screen appears when you’ve scored zero on a level.

Cheat: with Bing

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You can imagine a few red faces at Mountain View right now. It is one of those stories that refuses to go away – Google accuses Microsoft of copying search results yet they are the ones who end up looking silly.

Originally broken by Search Engine Land the story detailed how people within Google had harboured suspicions for a year that their search results were being copied by Bing after they found both engines were returning similar results for unusual misspellings. Unlike Google, Bing seemingly makes no attempt to correct the misspellings yet still somehow returns the same list of sites, even though these contain no references to the misspelled words. You can understand why Google’s suspicions were raised.

Image: Jeffrey Beall

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Micorosoft’s search engine Bing says it is launching its new social features today that it has built in partnership with Facebook and there could be privacy trouble ahead.

The changes mean Facebook users will start showing up in Bing profile searches, and get this, even if they’ve selected to not have their profile show up in public searches.  Read More »

Aha, we knew they were up to something.

Facebook and Microsoft’s Bing have announced a partnership which will see them integrating Like data with Search.

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Microsoft is hosting a Bing event at its Mountain View campus today. The folks from Facebook have been invited along.

Sounds like they’re planning something. What are they about to announce?

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