Microsoft Releases New MSN Toolbar, Now Powered By Bing
Aug 21, 2009 at 9:12am ET by Barry Schwartz
The Bing team tweeted last night that a new MSN Toolbar is now available at toolbar.msn.com. The new toolbar is supposedly now powered by Bing, Microsoft's new search engine.
I am not exactly sure what all the new features are but as you can see, the MSN butterfly is now being placed inline with the Bing logo:
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Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Toolbars & Add-Ons, Toolbars & Add-Ons: Firefox Browser
The Toolbar Factor: Engagement’s Role in Social Voting
Jun 30, 2009 at 7:00am ET by Jordan Kasteler
Since their infancy, social news sites have been trying to stay one step ahead of social media users trying to artificially promote content to their front page. Digg.com has been the center focus for spamming and gaming in social media because a front-page promoted story equates to thousands of visitors and hundreds, or even thousands of links. In order to combat the gamers and filter out spam, Digg has created an algorithm that is very complex in nature. Never do they cease to fine tune it, in an effort to try to stay ahead of people trying to artificially promote content to their front page. [...]
Filed in: Let's Get Social, Toolbars & Add-Ons
Internet Explorer 6 Forces Bing As Default Search Provider
Jun 2, 2009 at 4:44pm ET by Barry Schwartz
It appears that Bing is overriding the default search provider set by users of Internet Explorer 6. Several IE6 users have complained that since Bing launched, the search provided went from Google (which they set manually) to Bing. To makes things even worse, when the user tries to set the search provider back from Bing to Google, it doesn't allow them.
To be fair to Microsoft, IE6 is very old and Microsoft is already up to version 8. I emailed Microsoft about the issue and they confirmed the bug. A Microsoft representative sent me the following statement:
We're aware of the issue wi [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Toolbars & Add-Ons, Toolbars & Add-Ons: Firefox Browser
The DiggBar Compromise: Show Framebar Only To Logged In Digg Users
Apr 15, 2009 at 2:43pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Digg is promising a significant change to how its DiggBar framebar operates, one that should solve SEO concerns about how link credit is passed on but won't entirely remove misgivings about the framing of content.
With the new implementation scheduled for next week, only those who are logged into Digg will see the DiggBar. So if you click on a DiggBar URL from Twitter, you won't see the DiggBar unless you've already been to Digg and have a logged in status. Just having a Digg cookie won't be enough, Digg cofounder Kevin Rose told me when we talked about the new implementation yesterd [...]
Filed in: SEO: Redirects & Moving Sites, Search Engines: Digg, Toolbars & Add-Ons, Top News
The Growth Of Framebars & Kevin Rose On The DiggBar
Apr 10, 2009 at 8:19pm ET by Danny Sullivan
The DiggBar has been out for about a week now. Since then, there continues to be concerns over twin issues of whether it robs sites of link love and frames their contents in a way that's unfair to publishers. I had a good conversation with Digg cofounder Kevin Rose today about these issues and how Digg is actively looking at ways to solve worries over the tool.
For those unfamiliar with the DiggBar, it allows people to create a short URL that's useful in services like Twitter. Anyone clicking on a shortened URL made through Digg gets to a page with a DiggBar at the top. For example, [...]
Filed in: Facebook, Features: Analysis, Google: Images, Legal: Copyright, SEO: Redirects & Moving Sites, Search Engines: Digg, Search Engines: StumbleUpon, Social Media Marketing, Toolbars & Add-Ons, Top News, Twitter
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