E-Commerce News: Search

Bing Dips Toe Into Real-Time Search With Twitter Tie-In

Thursday - July 2, 2009

Microsoft's recently released Bing search engine has begun adding real-time Twitter updates from celebrities to its results. So far, it has indexed the Twitter accounts of a few thousand people, Bing director Whitney Burk told TechNewsWorld. Search results are tied directly to online ads. While adding real-time tweets may get more people to use Bing, it's not yet clear whether that will help Microsoft get more ads. That will depend on Bing's growth, notes analyst Greg Sterling. [More...]

Tea Parties, Pirate Ships and a Kayak: A Summer at Sea

Thursday - July 2, 2009

For seven months, a New York Times reporter named David Rohde was held prisoner by Taliban kidnappers. However, you wouldn't learn that from reading The New York Times -- or even Wikipedia, for that matter. In addition to other news organizations, the Times reportedly asked Wikipedia not to publish information on the abduction. [More...]

Bartz Cracks the Whip at First Shareholder Meeting

Saturday - June 27, 2009

Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz echoed the turnaround promises of her predecessors as she presided over the first shareholder meeting since her hiring, yet she left little doubt the slumping Internet company's new boss isn't the same as the old bosses. Like Terry Semel did in 2007 and Jerry Yang again last year, Bartz assured shareholders Thursday that she will polish Yahoo's tarnished brand. [More...]

Gold Mine or Legal Mine Field: Pay Per Click Ads vs. Trademarked Keywords

Tuesday - June 23, 2009

Since its conception in 1996, Google's search engine has played a key role in redefining not only the role of the Internet, but also the accessibility of the Internet to the end-user. In 2000, Google began selling ads associated with search keywords. However, the way these ads are triggered has led to numerous controversies. [More...]

A Week of Free Updates, Free Advice and Free Speech

Friday - June 19, 2009

What we're seeing in Iran could be the beginning of some big political changes. Fishy results in the presidential election last week have led to massive protests, some of which have turned violent. The way the news about the country's turbulence is reaching other parts of the world is monumental in its own right -- symptomatic of the changes that have been brewing ever since the term "Web 2.0" moved into cliché territory. [More...]

Does Bing Have Wings?

Thursday - June 18, 2009

Some positive reviews and a humorous TV ad campaign have helped, but online measurement service comScore is providing Microsoft's new search engine even more wind beneath its Bing with new statistics indicating gains in Microsoft search sites' penetration and their share of search results pages. [More...]

Bartz to Investors on Microsoft: Forget About It

Friday - June 5, 2009

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has a message for investors hoping for a quick fix at the slumping Internet company or for an online search partnership with Microsoft -- don't expect either to happen any time soon. The no-nonsense executive hired by Yahoo five months ago got her latest points across Wednesday during an appearance at an investor conference in New York. [More...]

Microsoft to Throw Bing Ads at the Wall

Wednesday - June 3, 2009

Microsoft is inventing a new malady for which its new Web search site, Bing, is the only cure. That's the premise of the $100 million, four-month advertising campaign Microsoft hopes will turn Bing into a verb and give the software maker a fighting chance against search leader Google. [More...]

First Impressions: Blah-da Bing

Monday - June 1, 2009

Like many others, I was salivating at the thought of getting my hands on a new, faster search engine, and so I was impatiently waiting for Wednesday when Microsoft was scheduled to unleash Bing on the world. When it made Bing available on Monday instead, I leaped on the application and began running searches on the Web with little cries of joy. [More...]

Microsoft Goes Bing, Palm's Pwned

Monday - June 1, 2009

Last week, Microsoft announced its new search push at Google -- and unlike Live Search, which was a joke, Bing looks to have the right stuff. The question is, can Microsoft get people to move? Palm initially looked as though it was going to get iPhone users to move, but that hope started to sputter last week. [More...]

Microsoft Chimes In on Bing Buzz

Friday - May 29, 2009

Fresh off its attempt to sideswipe Apple with its "Laptop Hunters" ad campaign, Microsoft is apparently now gunning for Google with its upcoming search engine, Bing. Announcing Bing on Thursday, Microsoft promised a worldwide launch by June 3 and pointed readers to a Web site where the service would be located. [More...]

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