It generally takes three to six weeks for a Bing malware removal label to go away, which is a lot longer than it takes for Google, which is days, and can at times be under 24 hours. Regardless, to find …

As previously reported, Bing’s Duane Forrester is scheduled to participate in a panel discussion at SXSW this weekend, called Dear Google & Bing: Help Me Rank Better! Also scheduled for that session are Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan, but Matt …

For the search crowd, the SXSW session to take place on Saturday called “Dear Google & Bing: Help Me Rank Better!” is no doubt on the list of those to attend. It was supposed to have Google’s head of web …

Google recently started a series of blog posts highlighting various points of progress it has made in its efforts to increase search quality. The results have essentially been lists of monthly changes Google has made to its algorithm and interface. …

As I (and others) have suggested in numerous articles in the past, the competitive landscape around search and social media could get really interesting if Facebook decided to start getting more involved with search. Facebook and Google are competitors. Microsoft …

Bing is testing some new looks for its search results pages. Liveside’s Michael Gillett, crediting @ParasValecha for the tip, says they’ve been testing several different designs over the past few months, but that more people are now seeing one like …

At SMX West today, Microsoft’s Bing revealed some updates to Bing Webmaster Tools. There’s a new organic keyword research tool and an API. On the keyword research tool, Bing’s Duane Forrester explains, “This tool allows you to perform keyword research …

Bing and Nokia conjunctively announced today that they’re unifying their respective map designs in order to provide a clearer, more visually appealing map for their users. The lovechild of the cartographic coupling will amplify the details of the mapping service …

Do you have a gripe about the current state of filmmaking? Do you long for the golden age where (most) ideas were original and the world had never even heard of Michael Bay? If so, you can voice your critiques …

As you may know, Microsoft and Yahoo have a “search alliance” which sees Microsoft powering Yahoo’s organic search results, as well as migrating Yahoo Search Marketing to Microsoft’s adCenter. The organic transition has already happened worldwide, and the ad platform …

Bing has launched “Linked Pages,” which allow people to link sites related to themselves in search results for when people search for the person’s name. Pretty interesting, especially since Bing allows users to simply add links that they just like. …

Google has hit Bing where it hurts by hiring away its general manager of marketing. AdAge is reporting that Google has hired Danielle Tiedt, former general manager of marketing for Bing. She led the recent “Bing is for Doing” ad …

Last year, Google, Bing and Yahoo teamed up to announced schema.org, an initiative to supporta a common set of schemas for structured data markup on web pages. Schema.org got some rich snippet markup for music a couple months later, which …

Today the United States is celebrating Presidents Day, the holiday that celebrates our first president, George Washington, or George Washington & Abraham Lincoln, or all the leaders of our country – depending on who you ask. Presidents Day (or Presidents’ …

Microsoft just launched a new MSN service called msnNOW, which the company says is designed to surface breaking trends from across the web, show what people are saying about the trends and why they matter. “msnNOW scours real-time sources, including …

It looks like Bing’s counterpart to Google’s Matt Cutts, Duane Forrester, is now putting out Matt Cutts-style webmaster videos for Bing Webmaster Tools. He posted this one about becoming an authority by building quality content and sharing properly: Video: Bing …

comScore’s ranking of search engines for the month of January were released today and Microsoft’s Bing has held onto the title of second most-used search engine for the second month in a row. In December, Microsoft’s Bing unseated Yahoo! to …

If you follow U.S. politics at all (or at this point, even turn on a TV), you probably know that Rick Santorum had a good Tuesday night. The former Pennsylvania Senator swept the primary contests, winning Colorado with 40.2% of …

Bing Webmaster Tools has a new tool called the Markup Validation Tool, which can be found under the “crawl” tab “This tool is a great way to understand if the added code is actually going to be readable, as intended,” …

It’s well known within the Internet industry that Bing has special access to Facebook and Twitter that Google doesn’t. They pay for such access. Google thinks it can do better by putting Google+ content all over its results with Search …

A couple of weeks ago, we noticed that when we visited Bing.com, Bing wanted to give us a tour of what Bing’s homepage. It was very helpful of Bing to show us that they have old Bing homepage images available …