Written by Sean Bradford – Original Post Is Here.
A little more than a month ago, Microsoft officially launched Bing.com. Preliminary reports that are now being released are showing that the search engine is again continuing to climb in terms of unique visitors and total number of searches.
Last week it was revealed that Bing took 8.23% of the U.S. markets web searches for the month of June, which was up from 7.81% in the month of May. And today reports are coming in that Bing has continued to grow in terms of unique visitors for the month of June.
According to Compete.com, Bing saw a total of 49.57 million unique visitors in June. Surprisingly the number trumps CNN’s 28.54 million, Twitter’s 23 million, and even Digg’s 38.96 million. It is to no surprise that Bing is continuing to grow, given the positive press coverage it has had in the last month.
Image credit – Mashable.com
Another interesting thing to note is that according to Compete.com’s numbers, Bing is ranked #13 in the United States in terms of unique visitors. Microsoft’s previous search engine, Live.com, is still sitting in the #12 position with 79.4 million unique visitors in June.
It is no doubt that Microsoft has a long road ahead if they want to give Google a tough challenge, but they are heading down the right path with Bing. As Microsoft continues to push the Bing platform, yes we said platform (More on that soon), expect to see Bing incorporated into more Microsoft products.
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Written by Marc Chacksfield – Original Post is here.
Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, is tweaking up in the UK, with news that it is to get changing pictures – bringing it more in line with the feature-rich US version of the service.
In an interview with Windows: The Official Magazine, Paul Stoddard, Consumer and Online UK Search Lead explained the latest feature: “Bing UK is to get the same changing pictures as the US. There will be a new picture every day, with added details, and the ability to go back through the week’s images.
“We have just employed a photo editor for Bing and his sole job will be choosing images for the site. We didn’t want to go live with this until we had the right person for the job.”
The added details he is talking about is the little squares that appear on the US page – kind of like Easter eggs, with interesting info about the picture of the day.
Flexibility
Stoddard also explained in the interview: “We’re passionate about Bing, and this shows we’re serious. We’re now in control of our home page, and we will have the independence to choose our images.
“On St David’s Day we can use relevant images and if Andy Murray won Wimbledon, then we could have done something with that. We now have that flexibility.”
When asked whether this was a money-making scheme by Microsoft, Stoddard replied: “We’re never going to monetise this. We simply want people to enjoy these images, and then want to come back and use Bing.”
Written by Stuart Turton – Original Post Is Here.
Microsoft has begun adding Twitter posts to Bing search results, as it looks to take advantage of the immense popularity of the micro-blogging site. According to a Microsoft blog posting, the company was drawn to Twitter’s ability to instantly reflect developing topics and public sentiment.
“There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created primarily by Twitter,” wrote Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Search Technology Center, on a company blog.
“We’ve been watching this phenomenon with great interest, and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space. We’re not indexing all of Twitter at this time… just a small set of prominent and prolific Twitterers to start.
“We think this is an interesting first step toward using Twitter’s public API to surface Tweets in people search,” he concluded.
The launch is something of a coup for Microsoft, which becomes the first major search company to index Tweets. However, the company has admitted that it will initially only index a “few thousand people, based primarily on their follower count and volume of tweets,” including Al Gore and Ashton Kutcher.
This number is expected to rise depending on the success of the service, which is currently only available to those making searches on the US site, and requires users to enter the word Twitter after their search.
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