Micosoft First to Put Ad on Facebook Logout Page
Microsoft, which was an early investor in Facebook and sold banner ads on the site between 2007 and 2010, became the first company to put its own ad on Facebook’s logout page, with a large Bing page appearing when some users logout. The new advertisement is much larger than any Facebook previously offered, covering one half or more of the logout page, and it also includes search capabilities on Bing. Users who wish to carry...
Microsoft Adds New Feature For Bing – Linked Pages
The search engine Bing, the Microsoft-powered alternative for Google, continues the series of improvements by launching a new feature: Linked Pages, a feature that filters results with personal relevance to users. The Linked Pages application for Bing gathers pages that have relevant content to the Facebook account of the user and then presents them priority when other people search for their names with Bing, according to Engadget....
Bing Central to Xbox Update
Microsoft is rolling out a much anticipated and major interface update to the Xbox 360 today, and its search engine Bing is playing a central role in order to provide better navigation. Bing has traditionally played second fiddle to search engine star Google but with the Xbox 360 it plays a primary role. Users can use verbal commands like “Xbox, Bing, [search term] to execute a Bing search, not on the internet through a web...
Bing to Reveal New Features
Bing search engine, which was launched by Microsoft in mid 2009 and promotes itself as a “Decision Engine”, is set to announce new features it has developed in an effort to differentiate itself, and take market share from Google. Bing will also launch a marketing campaign next year to promote the new features. Bing announced this week it has completed its beta testing and soon will fully incorporate the things that worked best...
Bing launches Bing Deals
Microsoft search engine Bing has launched a daily deals website called Bing Deals that aggregates daily deals from Groupon, Target, Nordstrom, Living Social, and other daily deal websites, providing shoppers with more than 200,000 deals to search through based on location, category, retailer, or keyword. Bing, in its blog post announcing the new service yesterday, acknowledged that there has been much discussion in the media...
Yahoo!, Bing Have Higher Search Success Rates Than Google – Analytics
Yahoo! And Bing have higher search success rates than their market share-dominant rival Google, a new report from Experian Hitwise reveals. The metric measures the percentage of people searching on these search engines and clicking on one of the displayed links in the search result. According to Experian Hitwise, Yahoo! had a search success rate of 81.36 percent for the month of July compared to 81.63 percent for the month of June...