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Adaptive Search Remembers You

Picturesque — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:58:37 +0000

It’s following you and remembering where you’ve been. Bing is doing more to customize your search based on where it thinks you are, where you’ve been before and what you are searching. If you are logged into Bing, it will base it on up to 18 months of history. This does wreck havoc on marketers but [...]

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Social Media Very Important to Bing

Picturesque — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:04:05 +0000

Submit your site to Bing’s search engine? Know what is most important to them? 1. Content (duh) 2. Social Media (eh?) 3. Links. Social media is far more important than the links you have to your site. So Bing is using RSS feeds, has low tolerance with issues in sitemaps and considers user interaction with [...]

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Bing Webmaster Tools Update

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:35:07 +0000

Bing has updated their webmaster tools with some new features and an improved look. http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster/

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Facebook and Bing Integration

Picturesque — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:07:13 +0000

Bing has been gradually adding Facebook data into their search. Now the integration has been stepped up to a whole new level. Bing results can now be personalized based on your Facebook profile, friends, likes, etc. Be careful when searching…if you are logged into Facebook while on Bing, your search results can be very different [...]

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You Must Be Secure

Picturesque — Tue, 03 May 2011 14:01:08 +0000

A post on Microsoft’s help forum makes it clear that you must have a secure site in order to be listed in the Bing product search. This user had a chat feature that wasn’t secure. Even though the site tested secure, the chat feature caused the check to fail. Overall a very good feature as [...]

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Microsoft Ad Console Empty?

Picturesque — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:13:05 +0000

Log in to manage your campaign and what do you see? If you see nothing, don’t panic. You are not alone. This is one reason why we manage our customer accounts through a different interface. The Microsoft ad console is loaded with issues. I personally think a junior high student created it. More discussion here.

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Bing Updates Mobile Search

Picturesque — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:44:39 +0000

If your phone has HTML5 capabilities, your Bing just got more Bling. Read and view more at Bing’s blog.

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Who is King?

Picturesque — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:02:01 +0000

Google has been receiving a lot of criticism regarding the quality of searches. Yes, spam content sites have been an issue for months causing many to jump ship to Bing for research (including me). Google finally woke up and has released a few statements across the boards that they are beefing up their elimination of [...]

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Bing Brings Back Links

Picturesque — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:51:49 +0000

You’ll need Silverlight installed and you’ll have to verify your site first, but you can now see link reports in the Bing Webmaster Tool. Learn more in Bing’s forum.

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Bing Update?

Picturesque — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:27:11 +0000

There is some speculation in the search forums that Bing had an update last night. I like it so far. All our sites that I’ve checked so far are doing the same or better.

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