A WebmasterWorld thread has some SEOs and webmasters talking about a possible Bing index or algorithm update that took place yesterday. These are webmasters and SEOs who joined the forum back in 2003. So they have some history
A couple weeks ago, Bing partnered with Facebook to add a more social experience to the Bing search results.
The huge search news yesterday was Bing’s Facebook announcement.
As you know, Bing is revamping their webmaster communications and thus let go most of the personalities we have grown to love in the Bing support area. One such personality was Brett Yount, former Bing’s webmaster center program manager who…
At SMX East yesterday, Bing had a sponsored panel named Bing Webmaster Tools and the Search Alliance which I live blogged. In that demo, they showed off some new features coming to the Bing Webmaster Center toolset. In July they..
Two weeks ago, Bing released a demo of the new Bing search experience on an HTML5 browser. I believe it still currently only works on the Internet Explorer 9 beta, not other HTML5 enabled browsers like Firefox, Chrome or Safari….
The folks over at WebmasterWorld have just started noticing Microsoft’s new spider arriving. As expected, the new spider is named BingBot. BingBot will still obey all the rules of its predecessor, MSNBot, but now has a fancy new name.
One of my favorite features that Microsoft acquired and added to Bing Search was Farecast. Farecast was a flight search engine that offered pricing predictions.
A week ago Bing announced a new marketing program for them to try to increase search market share. The program is called Bing Rewards and it works a lot like a credit card or airline miles program.
A week ago today, Bing announced their IE9 Bing search “experience.” In reality you should now or soon be able to see the new Bing experience in other browsers that support HTML5, like Firefox, Chrome and Safari but Bing said…