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Bing Updates Its Logo With Uppercase “B” & New Teal Blue Color
"It felt like the right time to freshen things up," says Microsoft spokesperson....
Bing Top Trends In 2015: Serena Williams, Refugee Crisis & Pluto Searches Surge
Bing says 51 percent of searches for professional tennis players were for Serena Williams....
Bing Admits They Need To Do Better With Webmaster Communication
In a blog post today on the Bing Webmaster Blog, Bing’s Igor Rondel, Principal Development Manager of the Index Quality team, said you can...
Yahoo Tells SEC: 31% Of Our Revenue Comes From Microsoft
Yahoo has revealed in a US Securities & Exchange Commission filing that nearly one-third of its revenue last quarter — 31% —...
Microsoft Says Goodbye To “Scroogled” Ad Campaign
Microsoft’s “Scroogled” ad campaign, which attacked Google over paid inclusion in shopping and Gmail over privacy, is coming...
Ballmer: 70% Of The Time, Google & Bing Are The Same, So Try Bing!
It’s perhaps one of the strangest product pitches I’ve heard. Asked on stage at Web 2.0 Summit by John Battelle about his Bing...
MSFT Earnings: $17B In Quarter, $70 Billion For Year
Microsoft announced fiscal Q4 and full year revenue this afternoon. Growing 8 percent from a year ago Microsoft reported $17.37 billion in...
Microsoft More “Ethical” Than Apple, Google, Yahoo, Facebook
Many people might not believe that Microsoft, the company that a decade ago was often known as “the evil empire,” is now one of the...
Microsoft Q2 Revs Almost $20 Billion, “Bing Division” Still Losing Money Despite Search Revenue Increase
Microsoft announced second quarter earnings yesterday, which beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company reported a lot of good news...
Ballmer At CES 2011: “Whatever Device You Use, Windows Will Be There”
Today in his Consumer Electronics Show keynote, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer declared that Xbox is no longer a gaming device but an entertainment...
Happy Fourth Of July From Google With Rube Goldberg Doodle
Google arguably has the most interesting logo for July 4th celebrations of all the search engines today. Google put together a Doodle that...
Microsoft Income Jumps, Online Services Loss Does Too
Wall Street is a curious place. A number of companies last week and this week reported very strong revenues suggesting that the recession is in...
Admitting Role In Google Anti-Trust Complaints Microsoft Complains Of Google “Lock In”
Responding to Google’s aggressive assertion that Microsoft is behind many of the anti-trust complaints that have been leveled against...
Microsoft Complies With EU Demand, First To Cut Data Retention To Six Months
Microsoft is the first of the major search engines to agree to the European Union’s demand that data retention be cut to six months. The...
CES: Microsoft Expands Scope Of HP Search Relationship To 42 Countries
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave the opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last night. It was a review of Microsoft...
Here Comes Google’s 2009 Holiday Logos
It is that time of the year again, the Google Holiday logo blitz is on for 2009. Google posted their first logo today, and will be archiving...
Google Plays It Safe With ’09 Veterans Day Logo
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...
MSN Introduces Dramatically Improved Redesign, Portal Drives Nearly 50% Of Bing Queries
Billed as the first major redesign in a decade, Microsoft has introduced a dramatic new look and feel for the MSN portal. The redesign...
Halloween ’09 From Google, Yahoo, Bing & Others
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...
MSFT Quarter: Revenues Down 14 Percent, But Beat Estimates
Microsoft announced quarterly revenues of $12.9 billion, a decline of just over 14 percent from the same period a year ago. Adjusted revenue,...
