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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advise.
If Google gets its way, 2010 is to be the year of display ads.
According to Business Week, Eric Schmidt’s prediction about display advertising back in July last year could well come true.
The Google CEO hinted that display advertising could be the next of Google’s businesses to generate $1 billion in sales. Now analysts believe that this wish is likely to come true.
Analysts including Doug Anumth from…
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In a recent post on the Bing Search blog, it appears that the search relationship between Microsoft and Facebook is expanding.
Microsoft secured the Facebook search deal back in July 2008. Under the terms of the agreement, Facebook integrated Live Search (which was Bing’s brand back then) web and sponsored listings into the site, providing users with a way of searching the web without leaving.
Under the newly…
The results are in and it’s no surprise that Google still has a commanding hold on the US search market. But has the Bing bubble burst?
Hitwise reports that while Google’s market share rose in December 2009 to 72%, Bing’s actually decreased by 4% from November 2009. The same can also be said for Yahoo! & Ask (but that’s really no surprise, is it?). Here are the…
Happy New Year to one and all! It’s hard to believe it is 2010.
The web is full of predictions about what is going to happen in search for 2010 – some good, some obvious and some way out there. In the past, I have cast my predictions and even managed to get some right.
This year, I thought I would do something different – not what I thought…
Google’s now famous for changing their logo with major events and this holiday season has been no exception. Below you can see a collection of holiday logos (or homepages) from Google and other major search engines!
Yahoo!
Bing
Ask.com
Search Engine Roundtable has a full coverage of even more logos if you’re interested!
A small design firm is suing Microsoft over the name “Bing” after claims that the Bing search engine is infringing on their trademark. Bing LLC has been running since 2000 and has a pending trademark application over the Bing name.
According to the lawsuit, Bing LLC claims that Microsoft’s Bing “causes confusion with regard to the relationship between the plaintiff and the defendant, confuses the public with regard…
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It’s taken them over a month to get it live, but Google have now officially launched real-time search.
We first told you about Google’s deal with Twitter to bring up-to-the-minute search results back in October. At the time there was a lot of speculation on how Google would present this data to searchers. Well, here’s how it looks:
When compared to Bing and Yahoo!’s real-time offerings, Google is first…
Australian and Canadian authorities have given the all clear to the proposed Microsoft and Yahoo! search deal.
Here’s what the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission had to say about the deal:
“Microsoft and Yahoo!’s share of online paid search advertising queries in Australia was limited, In combining search engine platforms, Microsoft and Yahoo! may have been able to achieve the necessary scale to provide effective and sustainable competition…
When I first posted how to setup a Bing local listing, we had a ton of feedback from our UK readers who pointed out that the Bing local listing center was only accepting US based businesses.
While UK listings were showing in search results, this was sourced from other data providers and it didn’t appear there was any way to get your information included.
Well, thanks to one of our…
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Microsoft has announced a number of enhancements to Bing, including a partnership with computational search engine, Wolfram Alpha. This will see Bing providing consumers with ‘answers’ alongside the regular search results.
Wolfram Alpha Partnership
In case you missed the initial hype, Wolfram Alpha is a new breed of search engine that pulls a range of statistics and data to compute an answer to your search query. Bing’s partnership announcement…
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