Yahoo and Bing – I thee wed
Strangely enough I was in a meeting with Bing yesterday, where this question was one of the questioned asked. Just as strangely the reps from Bing were kind of shady on the details of any deal, so its good to hear details that the Bing/Yahoo deal is now closed.
Officials in Canada and Australia have already [...]
Microsoft doing some research on Google SERP improvements?
One of the little tools I have installed on the Holistic Search blog is Statscounter, something I find hugely useful in terms of tracking visitors to the site. One of the more interesting visits came today with a visit from a Microsoft IP address (strangely enough from Google rather than Bing)
The query itself comes from [...]
If all else fails – Throw $100 Million at the problem
According to Advertising Age, Microsoft are looking at throwing between $80 and $100 Million to try and wrestle market search marketing share away from Yahoo and Google. The work is expected to be given to to WPP agency, JWT and Crispin Porter & Bogusk. The campaign is expected to see iterations on multiple channels including [...]
Isn’t it interesting what you find in robots files
John Hill over at E-Gain New Media sent me a link to these files he found in the robots.txt file for Google.com
http://www.google.com/jsky
http://www.google.com/linux
http://www.google.com/microsoft
and of particular interest
http://www.google.com/unclesam
This got me trying a number of other iterations, with http://www.google.com/google bringing back some rather ‘different’ results
Any other intesting snapshots out there?
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