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Microsoft and Yahoo add new escape clause to search agreement

A new provision in the renewed search agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo gives either company the ability to end the… Read More

Microsoft and Yahoo loosen ties as Mayer and Nadella renew search deal

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella have revised the landmark search alliance struck by their predecessors nearly six years… Read More

Is Amazon to blame for Google’s problems?

BusinessInsider’s Nicholas Carlson has a very interesting take on what is wrong with Google, and it essentially boils down to… Read More

FTC report alleges Google took product rankings from Amazon to boost its search results

A confidential report prepared by staffers at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission found that Google took product rankings from Amazon… Read More

Yahoo’s deal with Mozilla pulls searchers from Google, but Bing stays flat

Yahoo’s deal with Mozilla to become the default search provider for U.S. Firefox users has paid off. The company handled almost… Read More

Microsoft VP: Bing eyes Windows as ‘next treasure trove’ for data analysis

REDMOND, Wash. — Speaking this morning at a “Bing Ads Next” event, Microsoft VP Rik van der Kooi talked about the… Read More

Bing Search app brings on-the-fly language translation to iPhone

One of the great annoyances of using a mobile device to search the web has been encountering websites in foreign… Read More

Amazon spent $158 million on Google search ads in 2013, more than anyone

Amazon.com is competing with Google in a number of arenas, from phones to cloud services to drones. But this could… Read More

Former eBay VP Peter Mansour named president of InfoSpace

Peter Mansour, who led eBay’s Bellevue operation and served as the company’s vice president of shipping and marketing technologies, has… Read More

Google’s Matt Cutts to search marketers: Era of shortcuts is quickly coming to an end

Hundreds of Internet and mobile search marketers are gathering in Seattle this week for SMX Advanced, learning about the latest… Read More

Can a search engine predict the World Cup? Microsoft Bing is giving it a try

Microsoft’s Bing search engine, after using data to successfully forecast the results of American Idol, Dancing with the Stars and The Voice, will now… Read More

Confirmed: Microsoft Bing will be default for Apple’s new Mac OS X Spotlight

Apple is further distancing itself from Google and expanding its relationship with Microsoft Bing in the next version of Mac… Read More

Microsoft hopes to move students away from Google with ad-free version of Bing

Microsoft has rolled out a custom Bing search engine for schools, allowing administrators to enable an ad-free version of Bing with privacy controls and… Read More

Farewell, Farecast: Microsoft kills airfare price predictor, to the dismay of its creator

One of the most popular features of the old Farecast travel search engine has taken its last voyage. MIcrosoft, which… Read More

Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer: ‘We’re eager to start this new era with Microsoft’

Marissa Mayer has been clear about her dissatisfaction with Yahoo’s Microsoft search partnership in the past — saying at last… Read More

Expedia CEO discusses Google smackdown

Shares of Expedia took a hit last month after SearchEngineLand reported that the Bellevue online travel giant had lost about 25… Read More

Beyonce trumps Kim Kardashian for Bing’s most-searched person in 2013

Move over, Kim Kardashian — your time as the queen of Bing is over. That title now belongs to Queen… Read More

Report: Alan Mulally and Satya Nadella in lead for Microsoft CEO job

It has been more than three months since Steve Ballmer announced his plans to retire as CEO of Microsoft, setting… Read More

Bing update changes how you search for music videos

The days of watching music videos through the tube on MTV are long gone. Now, most of those clips are… Read More

Poll: What do you think of the new Bing logo?

Microsoft’s Bing is still far behind Google. Can a new logo help? Microsoft hopes so, and they’ve just rolled a… Read More

Microsoft hammers Google over ads in schools

The Scrooglers have struck again. First it was Google Shopping, then came Gmail which was followed by Google Play. Now, Microsoft’s latest attack on… Read More

UW search expert ‘disappointed’ with Microsoft Bing’s progress

In 2008, Oren Etzioni sold his airfare price predictor startup Farecast to Microsoft. The Redmond software giant took the technology… Read More

Bing now gives warnings, counseling help to those who search for child abuse images

People in the United Kingdom who search for child abuse images using Bing will now receive a warning not to… Read More

Search stats: Bing gaining market share as Yahoo slips

The monthly U.S. search stats from comScore are out for June and Microsoft continues to grow its search share while Yahoo keeps… Read More

Here’s what to know about Google’s upcoming Enhanced Campaigns

Everyone in the ad world is buzzing about Google’s plans to migrate all of its advertisers to Google Enhanced Campaigns,… Read More

I-5 bridge that collapsed into river is already gone from Google Maps

If you’re traveling on Interstate 5 this Memorial Day Weekend and need directions, Google Maps is going to be your… Read More

SEO guru Vanessa Fox sells search analytics startup Nine by Blue to RKG

Seattle entrepreneur Vanessa Fox has been bootstrapping her search analytics business, Nine by Blue, for the past six years. Today,… Read More

Klout Experts: A new Q+A platform that appears atop Bing search results

Social media metrics company Klout is making a move into the social question-and-answer space and is getting some distribution help from… Read More

Microsoft to cover Yahoo search revenue shortfalls in U.S. for another year

Microsoft and Yahoo will give their search partnership more time to meet their financial expectations. Microsoft has agreed to extend,… Read More

Bing refutes study that showed it led to 5X more malware than Google

Microsoft has finally responded to a study claiming that Bing’s search results delivered five times as much malware than Google’s,… Read More