Category Archives: Bing / MSN

Discussion about Microsoft’s search engine, which has been variously called MSN, Live Search, and now Bing.

More Google site command oddities – and Bing too

April 30, 2010 – 8:59 pm

A few weeks ago I mentioned I was seeing more and more erratic behaviour in the once-reliable Google site command. Today I noticed more strangeness on this very site. In March I had 163 pages indexed, at the beginning of April I had dropped to 138. Now I’ve dropped again to 113. But the really [...]

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Bing and Twitter could shift the search landscape

October 21, 2009 – 8:49 pm

As Danny Sullivan has just announced Microsoft’s Bing is launching has launched a Twitter Search system www.bing.com/twitter which includes a front page featuring a hot-topic cloud and list of top tweets. This gives Microsoft a major boost in the increasingly important area of real-time search, an area in which Google is perceived by some to [...]

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How mature is Bing and is it worth optimising for it?

September 20, 2009 – 2:02 pm

While in the US they seem to be raving about the rise in search market share that Bing has achieved, even before the extent of the Yahoo results takeover becomes clear, here in Europe its making little impact on Google’s dominance. In fact the figures I see in the major market share analyst sites doesn’t [...]

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MSNbot Madness

April 20, 2009 – 11:08 pm

If you’re experiencing an unexpected increase in bandwidth usage I recommend you take a look at your logfiles before celebrating higher traffic too much, you might find it’s all a Microsoft-induced mirage. The other day I noticed one of my sites seemed to have been unusually busy and I checked the usage on the AWStats [...]

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