Google Plays It Safe With ‘09 Veterans Day Logo

Nov 11, 2009 at 9:13am ET by Barry Schwartz

If you visit Google.com today, you will see a special logo for Veterans Day. The logo is less complex when compared to last years, where Google had to fix their Veterans Day logo. Last year, Google placed hats on top of each letter on the Google logo, the hats included Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. But they forgot one, the U.S. Coast Guard, which they added later. Google also has a logo on Google.co.uk for Remembrance Day: Bing has a Veterans Day Theme: Yahoo typically skips adding a special logo for today, which is what they have done today. But you can see more [...]

Filed in: AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Microsoft: General, SEM Industry: General, Yahoo: General

MSN Introduces Dramatically Improved Redesign, Portal Drives Nearly 50% Of Bing Queries

Nov 4, 2009 at 12:36am ET by Greg Sterling

Billed as the first major redesign in a decade, Microsoft has introduced a dramatic new look and feel for the MSN portal. The redesign simplifies and cleans up most elements on the site. Among other things, it makes video more central, incorporates Facebook and Twitter, creates a dedicated new local area and emphasizes search. MSN, which Microsoft says now has 600 million users globally (which would make it larger than Yahoo), is a huge asset for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it drives roughly 45% of Bing's queries. Even a cursory look at the old and new MSN h [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: General, Microsoft: Other, Top News

Halloween ‘09 From Google, Yahoo, Bing & Others

Oct 31, 2009 at 8:11pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Today is Halloween and the search engines have logos up for the special day. Before I post the logos, here are some posts from others in the community on Halloween. Matt Cutts of Google had a holy costume. Google Blogoscoped noticed Google added trick or treat to their robots.txt file. Bing has a special visual search edition for today. Bruce Clay's team dressed up and PPC Heros added some funk. Finally, the logos you see below is reposted from the Search Engine Roundtable. Google has four Doodles: Yahoo (Flash): AOL (Flash): YouTube: Bing: Ask.com: [...]

Filed in: AOL: General, Ask: General, Google: Logos, Microsoft: General, SEM Industry: Community, Top News, Yahoo: General

MSFT Quarter: Revenues Down 14 Percent, But Beat Estimates

Oct 23, 2009 at 10:29am ET by Greg Sterling

Microsoft announced quarterly revenues of $12.9 billion, a decline of just over 14 percent from the same period a year ago. Adjusted revenue, which accounts for $1.5 billion in deferred Windows 7 receipts put the quarter at $14.4 billion, just 4 percent down vs. a year ago. Profits were also down. Online services (where Bing is housed) had revenues of $490 million and a $480 million loss vs revenues of $520 million and losses of $321 million a year go. The conference call is going to start in a few minutes but the company's slides highlight strong Windows (7) and Xbox demand. PC growth was [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: General

Micro-Hoo: The Details Emerge With SEC Filing

Aug 5, 2009 at 12:01pm ET by Greg Sterling

First to pounce on the SEC 8-K filing by Yahoo was PaidContent, which provides an extensive bulleted list of many of the deal terms not revealed last week during the frenzy of conference calls and articles that followed the official announcement of the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal. CNET also writes about selected aspects of the deal contained in the filing, specifically an "escape clause" (termination) for Yahoo (see below). And the AP has a short piece on how the deal terms require Microsoft to hire at least 400 Yahoo employees. Here are some verbatim excerpts from the SEC filing: Negotiat [...]

Filed in: Business Issues: Acquisitions & Investments, Features: Analysis, Google: Business Issues, Microsoft & Yahoo Search Deal, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: General, Microsoft: adCenter, Search Ads: Contextual, Search Ads: General, Search Ads: Mobile Search, Top News

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