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Bing is Taking Feature Requests

Microsoft wants you to like Bing. If the company ever hopes to lure a significant enough amount of people away from Google, it has to deliver on user experience. For the most part the public's response to Bing in this area has so far been relatively positive. Bing has set up a discussion page on Facebook where fans can request features they would like to see added to Bing. Here is a sampling of some of the requests made so far:

Google Improves Universal Results for Locations

Google is now showing images in universal search results for location queries. They have shown maps for some time, but the addition of images enriches the results that much more.

Why It's Not Wise for Your Business to Overlook FriendFeed

If your business didn't have enough reasons to set up a FriendFeed account before, it has a very good one now. Last week, FriendFeed launched its real-time search feature. Results for this roll in when something that fits the query is posted somewhere. Think Twitter Search, only covering a bunch of services.

Google Captures Nearly Three-Quarters Of Searches

Microsoft's Bing accounted for 5.25 percent of all U.S. searches for the month of June, according to the latest data from Hitwise. Google continued to hold on to its dominant position growing 7 percent year-over- year capturing 74.04 percent of the U.S. search market for the month. Yahoo landed in the second position with 16.19 percent of the search market, but saw its growth drop 17 percent year-over-year, while Ask received 3.15 percent of searches with its growth slipping 22 percent year-over-year.

Search Bing From Hotmail Inbox to Insert Content

Microsoft announced today that Bing has been added to Windows Live Hotmail's quick add feature, which itself was announced back in February. This means Hotmail users can easily search Bing for items to insert into email messages. Users can each for maps, restaurants, movie times, images, videos and business listings from their inboxes. They can also preview and insert videos and images from the web.

Bing's Growth Almost Back to Live.com Numbers

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.

Facebook Getting Very Close to Google

Back in March, WebProNews looked at how Facebook was driving more traffic to some websites than even Google was. While, that was certainly not the case for everybody, it was still fascinating to see.

Do Meta Geo Tags Influence Google?

Google's Matt Cutts frequently posts useful tips for webmasters on the Google Webmaster Central YouTube channel. The short clips generally offer valuable nuggets of info that can have an impact on your site's performance in Google.

Bing/Google Overlap Steady After launch

WebProNews received some interesting data from Compete, looking at how searchers are using Bing, with regards to how this use overlaps with the use of other search engines.

Yahoo Rolls Out Search Pad

Yahoo has introduced its new Search Pad feature, which allows users to organize, save and share information they find while researching information online. Search Pad works by automatically recognizing when users are doing research and allows them to collect information and websites found in their search results. Search Pad organizes information in one integrated notepad that stays with users as they search.