In the aftermath of the Facebook & Bing press conference, announcements have been made by both companies, some going into effect almost immediately and some that will start to happen in the near future. The philosophy behind this search & social networking union is to make searching more social and much more personal. Both companies Read News…

Yahoo announced last week that they had begun changing their back end technology in Canada and US for Yahoo Search over to the Microsoft Platform and they released a statement today on both Bings and Yahoo’s search, that all free, organic search listings are responsible now by Bing. Senior VP, Shashi Seth stated in his Read News…

This week Microsoft has launched an updated version of their Webmaster Tools which is supposed to be a huge improvement on the old one as it has been built from scratch. Bing wanted to focus on three key areas: Crawling – lets you view details on exclusions, malware and redirects Indexing – check your site’s Read News…

Microsoft’s search engine Bing, has shown impressive results over the last 12 months, by gaining 12.7% of the market since its launch in June 2009. This is an increase of over 1.5% since January this year, and has risen steadily ever since. Google and Yahoo still dominate the bulk of the market, however todays news Read News…

Microsoft has mocked Google’s failed attempt at allowing users to change there home search page background image, Bing has had this feature from day one. Microsoft’s European twitter account tweeted on 10th June stating “we’ve lost our background image, if found please return to bing.com;)” Google announced their new feature on June 9th allowing users Read News…

Bing has received plenty of praise for its home page that shows a different picture each day. Today, almost exactly a year since Bing launched, Google has rolled out its own feature that lets you put a picture on the Google home page. Google announced today in a blog that anyone can upload a picture Read News…

Over the next few days Google will be letting people personalise the iconic Google Search home page by allowing them to add pictures of their own choice as the background. It is going to be known as Freeze-Frame and this picture-adding function will be rolled out over the next few days, starting in the United Read News…

Google will have “a problem” if it does not diversify its business, the head of Yahoo has told BBC News. It has been recommended that Google would have to “do a lot more than search” and suggested that it would have to “grow a company the size of Yahoo every year” in order to compete Read News…