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The full deployment of Microsoft’s new search… I mean, decision engine called “Bing” is to be completed today via Bing.com. While Microsoft’s Live Search never really caught on due to poor marketing and, more significantly, poor search results, the company hopes to gain market share with the rebranded and reworked Bing search engine. Live.com’s HTTP [...]

A recent press release was published by comScore, a leading Internet marketing research company, with a breakdown of the U.S. search market share among the major search engines.
This report focuses on the market share for January and compares it to the previous month, and indicates that Google has lost some market share while Yahoo [...]

A couple of days ago, the big three GYM search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live) announced their united support towards the new relationship attribute “canonical.”
This tag was created to better manage duplicate content that is generated by multiple URLs pointing to the same page - a common situation for large sites that automatically [...]

There have been signs over the weekend that point to the crawling of JavaScript from Live Search’s bot, MSNBOT-MEDIA. The initial evidence was found as URLs for site feedback were getting crawled, and references to these URLs only existed from JavaScript files. The consequent feedback pages were also only accessible through JavaScript as well.
Upon further [...]

This past week, rumours have emerged surrounding a deal between computer-maker Dell and Microsoft, although representatives from both companies declined to offer any comments. In the near future, Dell computers will begin to be shipped with Microsoft Live Search preinstalled onto the computer systems, effectively making Live Search the default search engine for new Dells.
The [...]