Tag: "Bing"
Bing Webmaster Tools revamped
Microsoft’s Bing has revamped their webmaster tools and are now available for site owners to use. A couple new features include; Index Explorer: Allows you to browse through the Bing index in order to see which of your directories and pages have been included. Submit URLs: Lets you to tell Bing which URLs should be […]
Read More | ShareWindows Phone 7 In Depth: A Fresh Start for Microsoft
The Windows 7 Phone is a fresh start for Microsoft. Microsoft can use this device as a foundation to build something totally new, and it’s very much different to any other phone you’ve used. The phone utilises and manages many of the different Microsoft products and services – Bing, Xbox Live, Zune to name a […]
Read More | ShareTwitter is the Number 2 Search Engine
Biz Stone, Twitter Co-Founder has recently commented that Twitter search queries are up 33% in a month. Looking at data from Searchengineland Twitter is now the number 2 queried search engine on the internet. Twitter does 18 billion searches a month, working off the 600 million per day figure? The figure is now closer to […]
Read More | Share10 Reasons Why Facebook wont Enter the Search Market
Facebook is very close to hitting 500 million users worldwide – 500 million users who spent a lot of time on the site. Many people are questing if Facebook could become a viable search engine with the mass following they currently have. Getting people to come to Facebook and making it their default place for […]
Read More | ShareTwitter search queries growing 33%, up to 800 million
Twitter is now supporting 800 million search queries a day, which is a 33% rise from the 600 million per day reported previously in April (on an average day). This means Twitter is now handling around 24 billion search queries a month. Comscore reported that Bing was generating 4.1 billion monthly queries worldwide while Yahoo […]
Read More | ShareBingbot replacing MSNbot in October
Over the last couple month the Bing web team has been busy refining and rolling our improvements to their web crawling software that indexes website on Bing.com On October 1st 2010, MSNbot will cease to crawl and will be replaced by Bingbot. This will show in your server logs as: bingbot/2.0 The HTTP header From […]
Read More | ShareBing donating money to BP oil spill via Twitter
Bing is setting aside $100,000 USD to donate to help clean up the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This effort is being lead through Twitter. Bing has said if you Re-Tweet (RT) the following: Retweet this & @Bing will donate $10 to @CNN’s Gulf Telethon up to $100K. More at http://bit.ly/howtodonate. #BingforGulf […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft to update Bing entertainment search results
Microsoft is planning to improve the search results on Bing in relation to searches about music, television shows, movies and games. Senior Vice president of Microsoft’s Online Audience Business, Yusuf Mehdi, will be giving exact details during a press conference in West Hollywood, California on Tuesday 22nd June. TV show search results such as local […]
Read More | ShareBing added to Opera Browser
Microsoft has completed a deal with rival internet browser Opera, making Bing one of the default search engines in the browser search field. If you want to download the latest version of Opera 10.60 Beta goto: http://www.opera.com/browser/next/ Google will still remain as the Default search, but getting Bing infront of Opera users is a good […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare has 60,000 users in Sydney, Business Survey
It is now estimated that there are 60,000 people in Sydney using the Geo-location mobile service – Foursquare. A recent survey of local businesses using Foursquare has generated some interesting responses. Only 10% of businesses using Foursquare said they would be willing to pay for the service. This is an alarming rate, especially considering Foursquare […]
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