Bing Bleeding Billions from Microsoft
I can’t make up figures like this; I’m not nearly that good at math. Check out David Angotti’s item over at Search Engine Journal for the details. He got his basic numbers from CNN Money. However you slice them, though, they aren’t pretty. Here’s the basics: Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since it launched the search engine in June 2009. But it gets worse,...
Read MoreGoogle Lifts Off With Flight Search
Google Flight Search is supposed to pop up as an option among the filters on the left-hand side of a search page whenever you enter a flight-related search into Google’s search box, such as flights from Orlando to New York City. Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land may have gotten that particular feature to work, but I never did. I had to go directly to Flight Search via the helpful...
Read MoreGoogle Cleans House
Just in case you’re coming to the party late, Google announced in late July that it would be shutting down Google Labs itself, an area of the search engine’s website where visitors could check out (read: play with) a number of different projects and features that Google’s engineers had created. These were still in the experimental stage, but periodically a project would ...
Read MoreWhy You Can Almost Guarantee Google is Using Your Analytics Data
While many webmasters and publishers use Google analytics without a second thought, smart publishers, marketers, and SEOs are left to speculate… Is Google using this data? What might they use it for? And am I doing myself more harm than good using it? if you aren’t paying for a product or service, you are the product being sold… Truth be told, unless Google ever does a...
Read MoreThanks to This Month’s Sponsors August 2011
I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here. Text Link Ads – New customers can get $100 in free text links. BOTW.org – Get a premier listing in the internet’s oldest directory. Ezilon.com Regional Directory – Check to see if your website is listed! Directory Journal – Get...
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