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As a company, Microsoft is decades-old. But its Windows Live Search search engine is the youngest of any of the majors. Generally speaking, Microsoft comes behind Google and Yahoo in terms of usage. But number three still makes it a very important search engine. For more background, see Microsoft news stories from our sister site, Search Engine Land. Below are topics submitted by Sphinn members:
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Avatar Went Hot: July 2, 2009 - 8:11 am
Posted By: BasvdBeld 2 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchcowboys.com)
Category: Microsoft
Everyone has an opinion on how Microsoft is 'connecting' to the world. What better way to look at it then going to the source? Mel Carson, Microsoft's Advertising Community Manager, writers about just this topic on Searchcowboys. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 30, 2009 - 11:30 am
Posted By: vermasaurav 5 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
3 cool Greasemonkey scripts for early Bing adopters. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2009 - 10:52 am
Posted By: guillebravo6 10 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.resourcenation.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
The numbers are in- both Statcounter and ComScore show Microsoft’s Bing search engine, launched two weeks ago, chipping away at the solid hold Google has long maintained on search engine traffic. Within a week after it launched, Bing had jumped Yah read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 24, 2009 - 12:17 pm
Posted By: resiever 11 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchcowboys.com)
Category: Microsoft
Bings daily market share in particular during the early days was significant as many people trialed the search engine, peaking on the 3rd June when it was the 3rd most popular search engine accounting for 10.8% of searches in the UK.
But is Bing a read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 17, 2009 - 9:08 am
Posted By: MattSiltala 18 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
I [Ann Smarty] have shared a few tools to combine Google and Twitter search. Now it is quite natural that some people would want to add Twitter search to Bing: read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 8, 2009 - 11:18 am
Posted By: sithburns 27 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.burnseo.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Is Bing the next big thing for Search? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 4, 2009 - 1:12 am
Posted By: UtahSEOpro 30 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft’s brand new search product, Bing, was unveiled to the public over the weekend. Over all the response has been moderately positive. Most of the attention has gone into Bing’s use of technology that Microsoft acquired from Powerset, that pro read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 29, 2009 - 1:53 pm
Posted By: robwatts 37 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.latitudegroup.com)
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft’s search engine Bing, announced today, is certainly different; it does things in new ways and brings a fresh approach to search. Whether this will create a seismic shift of users from that search monolith Google is another story and only t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 20, 2009 - 7:49 am
Posted By: jdevalk 75 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://adcentercommunity.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
Dave Naylor wrote a splendid post on the adCenter blog on how to use AdCenter to test title and meta description copy using MS adCenter, well worth the read! read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 16, 2009 - 9:42 am
Posted By: janecopland 79 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.chewie.co.uk)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Microsoft appears to be having a spot of bother with robots.txt files. That is, it's messing them up completely. Dean Chew writes about how MSNbot 2.0b's been in ur server, crawling ur files. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 13, 2009 - 4:56 pm
Posted By: debram 82 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginejournal.com)
Category: Microsoft
Loren Baker reports Microsoft and Yahoo are talking again and may be working on some sort of advertising partnership or taking babysteps to an inevitable acquisition of Yahoo by Microsoft. Good overview by Loren on their history and what could happ read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: December 31, 2008 - 8:47 pm
Posted By: Guavafruit 186 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft
A pretty amazing write up by Danny Sullivan covering what he believes is wrong with Microsoft Search and opportunities available to them. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: November 21, 2008 - 3:01 am
Posted By: saadkamal 227 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.saadkamal.com)
Category: Microsoft
Sr. Product Manager of Microsoft, Skip Chilcott openly endorsed that webmasters should participate in Link Exchange schemes as it helps to boost the rankings in search engines. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: July 9, 2008 - 11:11 am
Posted By: rustybrick 360 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seroundtable.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
Has the tide shifted? Is Yahoo creeping into position 3, while Microsoft's adCenter is climbing to position two in the search ad space? Some advertisers say yes. read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: June 26, 2008 - 9:34 am
Posted By: planetc1 373 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seomoz.org)
Category: Microsoft
Jane Copland writes... This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We'd gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 7, 2008 - 2:57 pm
Posted By: SpostareDuro 424 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
What will the search interfaces of tomorrow look like? How might we be presented with information that we are interested in differently than we are today, and how might that information be delivered to us in manners that we find helpful? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 6, 2008 - 2:36 pm
Posted By: theGypsy 426 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft
SEL - It's not entirely clear if this marks the end of the whole episode but it certainly appears to (at least on the surface.) A skeptic might see this as a power play to deflate Yahoo's stock and then come back with a tender offer or another try t read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: May 5, 2008 - 9:15 am
Posted By: aimClear 426 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
(Danny Sullivan post) If Microsoft's Yahoo walkaway is a ploy to save $5 billion, CEO Steve Ballmer may have proven himself pennywise & pound foolish. He was prepared to spend billions to make Microsoft a serious Google rival but may have destroyed read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: April 15, 2008 - 5:55 am
Posted By: SlightlyShadySEO 447 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
Live Search and AdCenter have reached a truly depressing state. With this in mind, I am pleading with them. Please, get better. There are basic and obvious problems. None of them too hard to fix. This is just getting depressing. read more »
5 Comments     
Avatar Went Hot: March 30, 2008 - 10:17 am
Posted By: mpilatow 463 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchenginepeople.com)
Category: Microsoft adCenter
So Microsoft adCenter is the only one of the 3 major paid search platforms that does NOT report on revenue read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 27, 2008 - 1:55 am
Posted By: BusinessHut 466 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.businesshut.com)
Category: Microsoft
Comparing Microsoft's Web Analytics service "Gatineau" against Google Analytics. Who will come out on top??? read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 25, 2008 - 11:57 am
Posted By: annie7 466 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://anzman.blogspot.com)
Category: Microsoft Searching
Microsoft's Live.com search has been seen embedding videos in their main index search results. The videos appear at the top of the page (unlike Google's universal search, which still, in most cases, is putting them lower on page 1 or 2 for many sear read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: March 17, 2008 - 9:59 am
Posted By: Gab 476 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.slightlyshadyseo.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Months ago, MSN changed bots to detect cloaking. Result?
"Every single domain I had is still in Yahoo or MSN. That is not a good sign for them. Some of these are way older than a cloaked domain should be." - XMCP read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 13, 2008 - 9:18 am
Posted By: Sebastian 507 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sebastians-pamphlets.com)
Category: Microsoft SEO
Microsoft Live Search upgrades their crawler today. From now on msnbot/1.1 supports conditional GET requests and HTTP compression. That's a very much appreciated move. I've chatted with Nathan Buggia from Live Search who was kind enough to provide m read more »
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Avatar Went Hot: February 10, 2008 - 8:33 am
Posted By: vangogh 513 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Microsoft
Imagine a search engine changing around the results that you see, not based upon the time that a page is published, but rather on some estimate of the importance of a page to you, and how that importance might vary with time and your personal calend read more »
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