Bing Grows Search Market Share, Google Repeats High, Yahoo Halts Slide

For the second straight month Bing saw its U.S. search engine market share on the rise. Meanwhile, Google held steady, duplicating its record share of the search market, while Yahoo held steady after 10 months of declines, comScore reported. comScore Explicit Core Search Share Report* July 2012 vs. June 2012 Total U.S. – Home & Work Locations Source: comScore qSearch …

Microsoft Advertising Rebrands as Bing for Small & Medium Businesses

As of May 1, Microsoft’s small and medium business brand changed its name to Bing, bringing the name and design in line with the search engine’s homepage. People who use Bing for search are in decision-making mode, Microsoft revealed in a statement about the rebranding. The ad buying experience through adCenter for SMBs is now more cohesive with the search user …

New Bing UI spotted by Liveside

The people over at Liveside.net, an independent blog that covers Microsoft’s online efforts, have posted screenshots about the changes Bing has done recently. Looks like the folks at Bing are back at it again, testing new versions of the UI, while not saying much about them or how (or even when) the changes will roll out more broadly. This latest …

Why webmasters should pay attention to Bing

It’s been two years since Microsoft launched its Bing search engine, but it was only a few weeks ago the “beta” tag was taken off. Now, SEO experts say, you should perhaps pay a little more attention. Although these online marketing gurus say Google is still the main focus, it may be time to take a few seconds and see …

Dex actions programs…New Low?

I stumbled across a SERP (Search Engine Results Page) today that has taken the last of the air from the Dex sails.  Dex One, or dexknows.com has started claiming local listings on the customers behalf and pointing the local, or places (shown in example below in red) listings at the Dex “digital storefront.” What does this mean?  On the surface …