Originally posted on Direct News – Original Post Is Here.
Search newcomer Bing might offer the best tools on the market when it comes to highlighting current search trends, it has been suggested.
According to Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch, Bing’s xRank feature seems to outperform Google Trends for displaying the most up-to-date trends in search queries, information that may aid companies’ search engine optimisation campaigns.
While Google Trends has a three-day lag on all keywords except the most popular ones, xRank is able to display information that is current as of today, he comments.
For example, conducting a search for golfer Ricky Barnes yesterday (June 21st) on xRank shows that web users prompted a spike in queries for the sportsman after leading the US Open over the weekend.
However, Google Trends had no data for the search as of yesterday.
“One feature where Microsoft seems to be edging out Google is with displaying recent search trends,” Mr Schonfeld commented.
“This may not be a major feature, but it shows a weakness in Google’s armour.”
Bing accounted for 12.1 per cent of US search results pages in its second week, up from 9.1 per cent in the week prior to its official launch, according to comScore.
Written by Abhimanyu – Original Post Is Here.
so with the launch of Bing (but it is not google called by many MS fanboys),Microsoft has gained Search market share by 2% in no time. People have reported and responded well to bing though it still has to go a long way to put any kind of challenge to Google.
Since Bing is just MSN with new name, the seo techniques for Bing will remain same as for MSN. The new content still ranks well in Bing just like msn. Here are few tips on SEO for Bing -
1. Submit your sites to Bing to here
2. Bing likes fresh content, so feed it as much as you can.
3. Most of the ranking parameters are just like for other search engines. I have noticed that new content do not stay that longer in bing as earlier it used to be.
4. Keyword rich domains rank very easily in bing just like msn so if you have a site like keyword1-keyword2.com, you can rank easily for “keyword 1 keyword2″ in bing search engine.
5. You can submit your sitemap to Bing from webmater tools here
6. It seems bing is giving lot of weightage to age of domain as I am seeing lot of sites with strong backlinks and old age ranking very high. Anyway you can’t do much about such factors so better leave it and focus on quality of content.
7. Bing seems to be giving lot of weightage to on page seo factors too so you may like to optimize title, keyword, description etc but don’t over do it and certainly do not prioritize it as you can easily trigger search engine filters due to this.
Written by Paul MacDougall – Original Post Is Here.
Microsoft hopes the move will make it easier to block adult images and videos.
Microsoft (NSDQ:
MSFT) has created a separate
domain within its Bing
search engine site that will be reserved exclusively for serving up pornographic images and videos. The domain, explicit.bing.net, will carry searchable content from adult magazine and
video providers.The move is not an attempt to make Bing racier. In fact, according to Microsoft, it’s designed to make it easier for IT managers and others to filter inappropriate content. “Potentially explicit images and video content will now be coming from a separate, single domain,” said Bing general manager Mike Nichols, in a Friday blog post.
“This is invisible to the end customer, but allows for filtering of that content by domain name which makes it much easier for customers at all levels to block this content regardless of what the SafeSearch settings might be,” said Nichols.SafeSearch is a tool that can be configured to block potentially offensive material. But it’s controlled by the end-user and thus can be easily turned off. Because it routes explicit images through a separate domain that can be blocked at the server level, Microsoft’s new approach should make it easier for tech managers to ensure that pornographic images are not finding their way onto workplace computers via Bing.
Microsoft’s Bing reconfiguration comes in response to the discovery that the search engine’s Smart Motion Preview feature allows Bing to be used as a virtual porn theater. Unlike other search engines, which simply redirect users to the source of a video, Smart Motion lets users view snippets of content—adult or otherwise—simply by mousing over search results.
The discovery prompted criticisms and China and certain Muslim countries have blocked the feature.
“Microsoft is never done when it comes to providing tools to help customers, whether they are large enterprises, local school districts or parents to make sure they can provide a safe searching experience when using Bing,” Nichols wrote.
Microsoft formally launched Bing earlier this month as part of a broader effort to beef up its presence in the search market. It committed more than $1.5 billion to acquiring search, or search-driven businesses—including a $1.3 billion buyout of enterprise specialists Fast Search & Transfer—through the first nine months of 2008.
The company is hoping to close the gap with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in search market share. Google presently controls about 64% of the U.S. search market, while Microsoft owns just 8% of the market, according to researchers at comScore. Yahoo, the number two player, holds 21% of the search market.
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