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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.
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:
News is surfacing that a report has been released & financed by the French government recommending that Google, Yahoo!, MSN and other big advertising companies be taxed on revenue made by online advertising.
The Zelnick Report says the tax would apply anytime an online ad or sponsored link is clicked in France and calls for a company to be taxed regardless of where it is based.
Dubbed the…
Most of the talk recently from Microsoft has been around Bing, but what about the MSN portal? Have they forgotten about it? The answer is no, it has actually just undergone a cool new facelift.
The MSN portal is one of the top 5 most visited sites on the net (about 100 million visitors per month) and seeing as though it’s been 5 years since its last…
Following the big news about the Yahoo!/MSN search deal, everyone’s been wondering how this might impact Google and what it means for competition. Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of search has given the thumbs down to the deal, saying it might hurt competition and consumers.
In case you missed the big announcement, Microsoft effectively bought second place in the search engine wars by announcing a deal which will…
The team at Microsoft are working overtime at the moment, with Bing launching, Yahoo! deals and now MSN overhaul!
Microsoft’s MSN portal is receiving an extreme makeover, with a clear and simple mandate to the team – “Do Less Better”
As ‘was’ the case with most web portals, the goal was to be everything to everybody. A one stop source of everything you need online.
Times are changing, and being…
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Bing has surprised many of us over the past few weeks with its solid growth in search volume and users.
With Bing securing more and more market share, Microsoft has started to reclaim the attention of webmasters and Search Engine Optimizers.
Accordingly, Microsoft has been quick to get on side with Webmasters and site owners by launching Bing Toolbox. Bing Toolbox is similar to Google’s Webmaster Center, but promises…
Last week I posted about the imminent launch of Microsoft’s new search engine. Low and behold – it’s here. Say hello to bing – The Decision Engine.
“Decision Engine?” You may wonder… well that’s how the marketing team down at Microsoft have decided to position the new search experience.
This week at the D7 conference, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) debuted the new search engine to an expectant crowd.…
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Google’s dominance in the US search market is continuing to grow according to data released by Hitwise today.
Google’s search market share grew by 8% year-over-year while Yahoo! And MSN dropped a staggering 19% and 17% respectively.
Hitwise also reported that search terms longer than 3 keyword phrases all saw a year-over-year percentage increase meaning users are using longer keywords phrases to find exactly what they are after.
With…
Beating Google in ‘share of search’ seems like a battle that can’t be won? But full credit to the team down at Microsoft who just keeping fighting on.
AdvertisingAge this week revealed Microsoft’s latest plan to claim the share of search crown. The tech giant has employed advertising agency JWT to create and execute an integrated campaign across TV, Radio, print and online.
And the price tag for the…
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Blogs have been buzzing today with leaked screenshots of Microsoft’s new search engine, Kumo. We speculated that Microsoft might be rebranding their search engine to Kumo back in November 2008, and now internal screenshots have been leaked and an update posted on the Live Search blog.
According to a Microsoft memo, the Kumo.com URL is for internal testing purposes only and will not be available to the general…
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