Thoughts On A “Killer” Bing-News Corp Deal & The Myth Of An “OPEC For News”

Nov 23, 2009 at 12:23am ET by Danny Sullivan

It's back, the prospect that Microsoft might try to make Rupert Murdoch happy by offering a "get listed with Bing" exclusive deal. Later, I'll revisit the topic in a coordinated fashion. But for now, I've collected a number of thoughts I've put out on Twitter, in blog comments and elsewhere. First, I'll point readers back to my post from earlier this month, Why An Exclusive Wall Street Journal (or News Corp) Deal Wouldn’t Help Bing. I still suspect that News Corp’s most valuable news content of all its properties remains the Wall Street Journal. So what happens if the WSJ is out of G [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: News, Microsoft: Bing News Search, Top News

Why An Exclusive Wall Street Journal (or News Corp) Deal Wouldn’t Help Bing

Nov 9, 2009 at 5:39pm ET by Danny Sullivan

With Rupert Murdoch talking about blocking Google, Jason Calacanis suggests that Murdoch should cut an exclusive deal with Bing. If that doesn't kill Google, it might at least win Bing a 10% search share or more within 6 months, he argues. I suggest Jason needs a reality check. Here's one for him. From his post today, Jason writes: I put forth a simple strategy for Microsoft to pursue with Bing in which they would go to content providers like the New York Times or Wall Street Journal and offer them 50% more revenue then they are currently getting from Google search referrals to be exclusiv [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Google: News, Microsoft: Bing News Search

Yahoo News Was Top Destination For Michael Jackson News

Jun 30, 2009 at 3:55am ET by Matt McGee

Yahoo News was the web's number one choice last week for information about the death of entertainer Michael Jackson. In a post on the Hitwise blog, Heather Dougherty shows a chart detailing how the major online News & Media sites fared: Late last week I wrote about how each of the major search engines handled the extraordinary search activity that followed the deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett on the same day. Yahoo is in a unique situation as an actual content provider with writers and editors, and some of those staffers were called in from home to help Yahoo cover the break [...]

Filed in: Google: News, Microsoft: Bing News Search, Search Engines: News Search Engines, Stats: Hitwise, Yahoo: News

Live Search News Adds Email Alerts

Jan 19, 2009 at 9:16am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Live Search Blog announced the addition of email alerts for Live Search News. Live Search had RSS results for a while, but did not have a way to subscribe to news alerts via email. Live Search now gives you the ability to get these alerts via email either once a day, twice a day or weekly and you can subscribe by section or by search phrase. To start getting news in your inbox from Live Search, go to Live Search News. Then, click on where it says "News alerts" and a menu will open up. You will need a Windows Live login and then you specify the email alerts you want. Here is a pict [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing News Search

Microsoft Adds RSS To Live Search News

Apr 25, 2008 at 8:45am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Live Search Blog announced the much requested addition of RSS to Live Search News. A little over a week ago Microsoft launched Live Search News, and one of the biggest feature requests off the bat was an RSS option. 9 days later, Microsoft has added the RSS icon to all the pages, including the home page, category pages, and news search result pages. It is important to note that the pages are not auto-discovering RSS, so you will need to copy the RSS URL for each of your subscription requests. Danny has additional information on Live Search News from last week. [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing News Search

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