I think it's safe to say that the initial boost from the Bing launch is pretty much over, but as that pricey marketing campaign continues to run on televisions around the country, the number of unique Bing visitors (according to Compete) is rising steadily.
Most people think the Webmaster Tools programs as a bit like black holes. You send in a question, concern or idea and nothing ever happens…it just sort of disappears. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, the truth is light years away from this thinking. Witness Live’s revised and expanded WMT program.
Eeyore, the donkey always missing its tail, always liked to thank people for noticing him. Seems like, when it comes to search, Microsoft has the same problem. SearchEngineLand's Danny Sullivan interviewed Microsoft's Kevin Johnson, president of the Platform and Services division, during today's keynote session at SMX Advanced in Seattle, and all roads led back to Google.
Consumer PCs from HP will arrive with default search and a toolbar from Microsoft in the browser, linked to the Live Search service.
Ahead of Microsoft's advance08 Advertising Leadership Forum, Microsoft's Kevin Johnson acknowledged to company employees, among other things, that Microsoft's online branding could be a lot better.
Keeping one's myriad devices connected and synchronized, with files available on one gadget for everything connected over Microsoft's Live Mesh, serves as the focus of the company's new service.
The launch of Yahoo Live, and its associated developer APIs, enable people to create live videos and webcast them immediately.
In a recent SEOCO blog, it was reported that Live.com now returns extra links under the first result.
Microsoft has finally made its Live Search Webmaster Tools available to all site owners, webmasters and SEO professionals.
After a brief private beta, the Live Search Webmaster Center aims to help website professionals improve their results in the MSN and Live.com Search Engines.
Pingdom tracked 12 top social networking sites from October 19 to November 19, and found that Microsoft’s Live Spaces had the most downtime, with the site failing to respond for a total of three hours over the course of the month.
By contrast, that’s more than Facebook (10 minutes), MySpace (10), Bebo (30), LiveJournal (40) and Orkut (85) combined, and worst on the list.