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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Yahoo! may have been overtaken by Google and Bing, but with the promised enhancements to its search being launched today the portal is saying it’s still in the race.

Google of course dominates the US market, with 65% of search volume, while Bing inched ahead of Yahoo! last month for the first time, putting them both on around 13% each. By improving the aesthetics and functionality of search and offering more relevant entertainment and news content alongside, Yahoo! hopes to recapture some of its market share. Read More »

Intriguing research into how social networks are sending traffic to French news websites shows that Twitter is well behind Facebook in terms of the percentage of total percentage of visits delivered.

Source: AT Internet

Why intriguing? Twitter is full of links. URL shorteners are running out of short links because of the number that tweeters use. Tweeters blame each other for spikes in traffic to the Daily Mail website caused by links being shared. Read More »

You have to love the math. Do you remember way back when Lycos was a big deal on web? It was once worth a whopping $12.5bn. That’s what it sold for in 2000. It was Spanish telecom giant Telefonica that bought it at the height of the dotcom boom. Read More »

Microsoft has launched something it is calling Street Slide, which has the best aspects of Google Street View and Bing Maps Streetside but allows you to navigate quickly down an entire street dipping in without getting into horrendous digital knots as you try to focus on the one part of the street that you are interested in. Read More »

In an interview with The Telegraph Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare, has revealed that the location-based social service is in talks with the major search engines, hoping to strike a deal which will use Foursquare’s check-in information to enrich local search results.

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In 2012, London will hold the record for hosting the Olympic Games more times than any other city (three). As the UK prepares to become a global magnet for athletes and tourists alike, companies of all sizes will be looking to tether their brands to related promotional activity. Within the online space, search has become more important than ever in generating visibility, but as online platforms continue to evolve at pace, what will the SEO landscape look like in 2012? Read More »

Bing does social search

Bing has launched a dedicated social search page indexing the most popular trending topics (or the ‘hottest’ ones, as Bing bills them) and then giving you a selection of what your fellow web surfers around the world are saying about them. Read More »

In another example of fighting fire with, um, oil, BP has been desperately buying up search terms to lead people to an insipid microsite that says more about its obsession with image than it does about its efforts to clean up the oil spill. Read More »

Google: pushing personalisation

Google has now launched its homepage customisation feature worldwide and is promoting it today by turning its logo white and automatically serving you up a colourful new background. Read More »