Microsoft today announced the rebranding of and update to the Live Search search engine. The update has been in testing under the name codename Kumo since late last year. Live Search was given the new name Bing, in a post on Live Search blog Microsoft explains why Bing was chosen: We needed a brand that [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Microsoft Announces Rebranding of Live Search as Bing
Thursday, May 28th, 2009Microsoft To Reduce Cloaking Detection Checks from MSNBot
Thursday, May 21st, 2009In a post on the Live Search Webmaster Central Blog it was announced that Microsoft has released a patch for their cloaking detector that “should significantly reduce the number of requests to a more acceptable rate.” The cloaking detector, which is an part of Live Search’s MSNBot crawler, checks to see if websites are providing [...]
Google Adds Features and Introduces Ads to Google Suggest
Thursday, May 21st, 2009Google has added features and tweaked its search suggestion tool Google Suggest. The tool, which was introduced last August, suggests search queries in a box below the search box as searcher begins typing in text. The tool was previously only available when making searches from the home page and has now been added to results [...]
Study Finds Increased U.S. Internet Use in Q1 2009
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009A study (PDF) by the Nielsen Company found an increase in the use of and time of use of the Internet in the United States in the first quarter of 2009. The study found that 163,110,000 Americans 2 years and older used the Internet monthly, an increase of 3.2 percent from the first quarter 2008. [...]
WordPress 2.8 Beta Released
Monday, May 18th, 2009The first beta of WordPress 2.8 was released on Saturday according to a post on the WordPress Blog. The new version features a new widget API that should lead to better widgets, a theme browser/installer and performance upgrades. Only minor changes have been made to the interface, following the major changes that occurred in the [...]
Microsoft Updates adCenter Tools, Content Ads Service Comes Out of Beta
Monday, May 18th, 2009Microsoft has released a number of updates to tools for their adCenter online advertising service and taken the Content Ads service out of beta in the United States. Some of the biggest changes occurred in adCenter’s campaign management tools. Customer targeting and incremental bidding can now be set campaign wide and default bids can now [...]
April U.S. Search Share Results
Friday, May 15th, 2009Nielsen Online today released its rankings of U.S. search share for April (PDF). Overall search increased 4.4 percent year over year to 8.6 billion searches. Google had year over year increase of 7.8 percent and received 64 percent of searches. Yahoo had a year over year decrease of 2.8 percent and received 16.3 percent of [...]
Google To Allow Trademarks in AdWords Ads
Friday, May 15th, 2009Google has announced that they are changing their policy on the use of trademarks in the text of AdWords ads in the U.S. Currently Google will show advertisements for words and phrases trademarked by other entities, but does not allow ads to use those trademarks in the text of ads. Beginning on June 15 the [...]
Google’s Webmaster Tools Get Update
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Google has launched an update to their Webmaster Tools, which introduces a new interface and improvements to some of the features. The new interface reorganizes the placement of the various features and adds top search queries, inbound links, and sitemap data to the site overview page, now renamed the dashboard. The top search queries report [...]
Google Introduces New Search Results Filtering Options
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009Google today introduced a set of features they call Search Options, which provides users with the ability to filter their search results in a number of ways. The options are accesible by clicking the “Show options …” link under the search box on the search results page. Results can be filter to only include videos, [...]
