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Microsoft Opening European Search Centers

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Steve Balmer of Microsoft announced Thursday that they were opening 3 R&D centers in Europe as part of their ongoing efforts to catch up to Google in Search Engine market share.  The search center locations would be in Munich, Paris and London.
Microsoft also announced that it was going to be increasing its $600 million/yr European [...]

New Microsoft Pay to Search Program

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Microsoft started an initiative back in May called Live Search Cashback which provides rebates to users of its search engine who search for and purchase products through Microsoft Live.
It was a novel approach to attempt to increase search engine market share.  Currently, Google has a commanding lead at about 63%.  Yahoo! is second with just [...]

Wikia Search Update

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Wikia Search was launched in Alpha earlier this year and we have been watching it out of the corner of our eye to gauge its progress.  At first, wow, it was bad.  The search results were slow and chocked full of irrelevant sites.  But, hey, it was only an alpha release and creating a new [...]

Cuil First Impressions

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

By now, I would imagine that everyone in the SEO world has at least heard of the new startup search engine called Cuil (pronounced “cool”).  It is run by some former Google employees, uses different  algorithms and shows the results in a layout similar to a magazine or newspaper.
As one might expect, an announcement [...]

Google Selling Performics

Monday, April 7th, 2008

When Google purchased DoubleClick, they also became the owners of Performics - Search Engine Optimization company. There was a lot of talk in the SEO/SEM community about that being a conflict of interest - a Search Engine company owning a Search Engine Optimization company.
Last week Google announced it will sell off the Performics portion [...]

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