The hashtag jungle of real time search

Last week my partners in crime over at The Cynical Bastards podcast talked about the deals that Twitter had made with both Microsoft and Google that would allow both companies access to the fire hose of information ... continue

Twitter Lists and Real Time Search deals – The Big Picture

I've spent the past few hours searching around the tech blogs, SEO blogs, forums and Twitter but haven't been able to find anyone who has made the connection between the recent Twitter Lists feature and the Twitter ... continue

Looking at the nuances of the Twitter search deals

Well there is no denying that today was an interesting one when it comes to the world of search and the real time web. From everything I have read so far today everyone seems to be of ... continue

BREAKING: Microsoft’s Bing and Twitter search results live [Screenshots]

The blogosphere has been all a twitter this morning with the news that Twitter has inked a deal with Microsoft and one is in the works with Google. Thanks to a heads up from Robert Scoble on Twitter ... continue

Microsoft’s ‘Bing’ Is Anything But Bling As Marketshare Keeps Slipping

Two new surveys looking at Internet search engines show Microsoft's massive effort to rebrand and relaunch its 'Bing' portal is facing some growing pains. September's poll from NetApplications found Bing fell to just 3.39 percent of the global ... continue

Microsoft’s latest Bing campaign: jailbait and sick children

Did someone say Crispin Porter + Bogusky? Microsoft's current online display advertising for search engine Bing has taken to using jailbait and sick children to drive traffic. The themed campaign focuses on a search term and related image, ... continue

Microsoft Yahoo deal is a big win for Bing

After over a year of failed talks, takeover offers, proposals and god knows what else, Microsoft and Yahoo are finally doing business together in a deal to be formally announced Wednesday. Kara Swisher broke the news, with AdAge ... continue

More Bing homepage photos plus a photo contest

I realize that this news will really only apply to a small segment of readers, those one’s not swimming in the Google kool-aid at least, but when it comes to Bing one of the ... continue

Bing continues to surprise, drives traffic to blogs

The success so far of Microsoft's new search engine Bing depends on which numbers you look at. Different sources claim that Bing is still growing, has lost traffic, or has leveled off. Some say Bing is already ... continue

Bing starts to work like the ads promised. Sadly though it’s georetarded

Microsoft has rolled out the Bing Travel, the smart grouping feature promoted in its ads and promotional videos that offers grouped hotel ratings, flight prices and more. The feature has had me confused from the day Bing ... continue

Microsoft’s Bing ads and the logic of a decision engine

It would seem that a part of that massive $100 million that Microsoft has earmarked for the advertising campaign for Bing has started to flow. so far there have been three commercials that have ... continue

Google Squared: a reasonable start

Google has launched Google Squared, a rich search feature that is meant to take the good fight to the over hyped and under delivering Wolfram Alpha. Google Squared attempts to group search results based on a query, for ... continue