Topic: Bing News

SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 5, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: AdWords Debuts Offline Conversion Tracking For Full Sales Cycle Optimization Running lead generation campaigns on Google AdWords? Measuring success and optimizing campaigns for actual sealed-deal conversions, not just lead in-take, just […]

Bing News Gets Easy Way To Spot Trending Stories On Twitter & Facebook

What are the top stories being shared on Facebook and Twitter? There’s a new way to get a sense of that. Bing News got a makeover today, including new “Trending” boxes that show news content that’s popular on both of those social networks. Bing News Now Features Trending Topics From Facebook & Twitter on Marketing Land […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 31, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Yandex Turns Up The Dial On Personalized Search The Russian search engine Yandex has announced changes to how it presents personalized search results, saying that personalization is now based on what’s […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 23, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Penguin 4, With Penguin 2.0 Generation Spam-Fighting, Is Now Live The fourth release of Google’s spam-fighting “Penguin Update” is now live. But, Penguin 4 has a twist. It contains Penguin 2.0 […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 15, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Up Close With Facebook Graph Search We’ve covered the launch of Facebook Graph Search, explored how it differs from Google search but now it’s time for the hands-on. Come along for […]

How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites

“What’s the use of PRWeb?,” tweeted Megan McCarthy of Reuters, trying to digest how that service ended up circulating a fake Google acquisition story. Come along, Megan and others, and I’ll explain one of the sorriest uses, getting crap into Google News and out into news sites. For those who somehow missed today’s big tech […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 17, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing News Expands To Your Facebook Feed With Customizable App Bing News wants to be your go-to place for finding out what’s going on in the world today, whether it be […]

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Bing News Expands To Your Facebook Feed With Customizable App

Bing News wants to be your go-to place for finding out what’s going on in the world today, whether it be the sports world, financial world, or your local world. But social media — and Facebook, especially — is where a lot of us find and share important links and headlines. So how does Bing […]

Twitter Trends: Now Showing In Bing Results?

Bing has been very upfront about the fact that people and social stats can power search results.  A new implementation of social data was spotted in the wild by techie-buzz.com who found Twitter trends making their way into the search results pages.  The query in question was for a hot topic (Pepsi Next) that had quite […]

Bing Central: Bing’s New Self-Promotional User Hub

Bing has just launched a new service called Bing Central that ostensibly exists to serve as a hub for Bing users, but unfortunately has too much self-promotion and too little utility in this first version. Although Bing Central offers links and access to several Bing account- and search-related tools, as you can see above, the […]

Bing’s Battle With Google: How Long Is “Long Term”?

On Sunday the New York Times ran a lengthy article about Microsoft, the search underdog. Directed at a very mainstream audience there was nothing new in the piece for readers of Search Engine Land. However it did raise some interesting questions, directly and by implication. For example: How many years does Bing (and Online Services) […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 23, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Reveals Secrets Of “Search Direct” Alogrithm I had about 20 minutes with Yahoo’s Shashi Seth after the press conference to discuss a range of things related to the Search Direct […]

Bing News Adds Tweets To News Results

Bing has added tweets from Twitter on the Bing News search results pages. The tweets are public updates from the Twitter stream related to the news query. For example, search for [japan] on Bing News and you will see a box on the right that says “Public updates for japan.” You can pause the stream […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 21, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: German Court OKs Google Street View Imagery In “Landmark Decision” German publication Deutsche Welle is reporting that a Berlin court has vindicated Google Street View operation in Germany. In late 2010 […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 20, 2010

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: De-Mystifying Cost Per Action and Its Impact On Search Marketing: Webcast next Tuesday Next Tuesday at Search Marketing Now, Jeremiah Andrick, Online Customer Acquisition Manager at Logitech will discuss Cost Per […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 8, 2009

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Pitches New Small Business Customers, Ignores Existing Ones Google is hitting the streets of San Francisco next week — with at least one high-powered supporter in tow — to talk […]