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Touted as “its most significant homepage redesign in over a decade”, Microsoft has begun rolling out its new homepage to select users.
Microsoft says the redesign includes more than 30 updates that are based on 70,000 pieces of customer feedback. These new features include:

The major search stats are out for January 2010 and it further shows how the steady decline of Yahoo! is being picked up as growth by other search engines such as Bing.
During January 2010, Bing searches increased 0.6 points to claim 11.3 percent of overall searches, while Yahoo! continues to fade, dropping 0.3 points to 17 percent.
Here’s the full range of stats from comScore:
When you compare…
This seems like a valid question considering the lack of activity from Yahoo! lately in search, while Google & Bing continue to innovate.
Well, to answer the question, Yahoo! still is very much committed to search as indicated at its recent SearchSpeak conference.
The event was basically a press conference allowing Yahoo!’s Search Products SVP Shashi Seth to dispel the “misconception” that Yahoo! was no longer investing in search.…

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…

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…

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…