The news of Bing launching an ‘Editors’ Picks‘ comes via searchengineland.com today. With Google withdrawing their Google directory from public use it seemed as though directories were going to slowly become something of the past. Afterall, if the search engine giant Google was deleting their directory surely everyone else would follow form? NOT the case. [...]
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Bing and Mobile Search
Sometimes it can feel like we don’t pay attention to any other Search Engine but Google. As we have said in a previous blog, Google is the main market share holder in the Search game, but that does not mean we should totally exclude other Search Engines from notice. Bing for instance, is still in [...]
Google Monopolises Search – Is This Bad?
Over the past couple of years there have been serious debates going on in the SEO world concerning the market share which Google so clearly enjoys. It is no secret that over the past years Google has sprinted ahead of it’s Search competitors, Bing and Yahoo, and taken the lead in the Search game. Isn’t [...]
Why Is Content Relevant to SEO?
This is a valid question and needs a good answer. As the web continues to grow there are more and more sites and therefore more and more content available to users. Unfortunately, along with the good, there is the bad. It is quite common, now, to come across sites with hardly any content. What’s there [...]
Where is Search Going
I enjoyed the article in Search Engine Land by Gord Hotchkiss in his interview with Stefan Weitz, a Director at Bing http://selnd.com/dp4AlL. It highlighted one of the biggest challenges in Search today – language. How can search engines determine if you put in the search term ‘jaguar’ whether you mean an animal, a car or [...]
Search and Business – Right Here, Right Now and Very Personal
During the past six months we have seen the major search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo refining their search engines to return results that take into account the users location and previous search history. What this means is that the results search engines returned to individual users will vary depending on where the users are [...]