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Bing Homepage Contest

For many people, their favorite feature of the search engine Bing is the beautiful photograph featured on the homepage. Now Bing is having a contest to select a users photograph for their homepage for 24 hours. The winner will be selected based on user ratings and by the Bing homepage editorial team. The theme for the... [Read more of this post]

This entry was posted Monday, July 6th, 2009 at 2:31 pm Twitter for Busy People

Interested in using Twitter as a business tool but concerned that you don’t have the time to check your friends updates? If you answered yes, there is a new site called Twitter for Busy People that you might want to try out. This site requires you to enter your Twitter name and then provides you with icons of your... [Read more of this post]

This entry was posted Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 10:14 am Focus Group on Bing Versus Google

A recent study performed by TechCrunch compared search usability on Bing versus Google. To sum up the study, most people prefer the design of Bing, but will stick with Google due to familiarity, the fact that they already use many other Google applications, and Bing’s new features are not large enough to make them... [Read more of this post]

This entry was posted Friday, June 26th, 2009 at 2:57 pm June 2009 PageRank Update

Google has once again rolled out more updates to their PageRank Toolbar. Typically Google makes PageRank updates about every 3 months, but this update comes very close to it’s last update in May. So if you are engaged in SEO on your site and see a change in your PageRank, don’t be too alarmed. SHARETHIS.addEntry({... [Read more of this post]

This entry was posted Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 10:31 am Bing’s New Features

Are you wondering how Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is going to affect your organic rankings? Microsoft now offers a white paper for webmasters outlining Bing and it’s new features. After reading through the white paper, it appears that Bing is still following the standard SEO practices. Click here to... [Read more of this post]

This entry was posted Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 pm Google Places “Discovering the Web” link on their Homepage

With the continued buzz of Bing, Google is taking precautionary measures to make sure they maintain their position as being the #1 search engine. Google hasn’t had to do much to hold this spot in the past. They have now added to their homepage a link saying: Discovering the web: Explore the world of Google search.... [Read more of this post]

This entry was posted Thursday, June 18th, 2009 at 9:01 am Show Search Results Across Engines in One Window

Looking for a way to view search results across different engines without having to switch back and forth between windows (or tabs)? There are many tools that give you the opportunity to type in a search query and will show you search results for the top search engines all in one window. One tool in particular that I... [Read more of this post]

This entry was posted Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 3:21 pm Dell Uses Twitter as a Powerful Marketing Tool

Dell outlet uses Twitter as a marketing tool to “tweet” specials on their dell outlet website. This strategy has led to a direct $2 million in sales, and another $1million as a result of attracting large numbers of customers to the dell.com site. This is a prime example of how micro-blogging can be used as a strong... [Read more of this post]

This entry was posted Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 at 7:53 pm Bing TV Commercials

Over the past couple of weeks I have seen a tremendous amount of Bing television commercials. I have been impressed with the commercials that position Bing as the first ever decision engine. What have you thought of these commercials? Do you think they will entice people to start using Bing over Google? SHARETHIS.addEntry({... [Read more of this post]

This entry was posted Friday, June 12th, 2009 at 2:29 pm Google Webmaster Tools Adds Change of Address

Google has added a new feature to their Google Webmaster Tools where you can notify Google when you are moving from one domain to another. For example, let’s say that Getupdated.com was going to move to GetupdatedUSA.com, we would now be able to login to Google Webmaster Tools and specify the change. According to... [Read more of this post]

This entry was posted Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 9:34 am