This morning Bing senior engineer, Marvel Beets announced that they would start using Google’s Page Rank algorithm to return results in Bing. As of next week when people perform a search using Bing the results will be processed and returned using Google’s Page Rank algorithm rather the Bing’s own Clippy. “You have to be able to admit [...]

As part of our decade in search series I wanted to pick out a few highlights that have caught my eye in 2009. We know of late Google has been pumping out new products and services quicker than Santa delivers presents. However, before we even touch the wonderful world of Google let’s take a quick [...]

There have been significant developments with Google, Bing and of course Twitter of late that has lead to some questions being delivered to us here at iCrossing. I thought it would be good to share some of these questions with the Connect readers and even try answering some of them… What significant implications will this have [...]

So with the BIG announcement yesterday of the deal between Yahoo and Microsoft (henceforth Microhoo), we’ve done a quick straw-poll at iCrossing HQ to find out what our team of experts would do if they were in charge of mashing both engines together: Improve SiteExplorer functionality with Bing data (helps get the SEO community onside), [...]

Advertising Age announced last night that Yahoo! is expected to be making Microsoft’s Bing its search provider.  This deal could increase Bing’s market share to nearly 30%, which would surely make this a cause for concern for Google. Following the launch of Bing, Yahoo! traffic has started to suffer (Microsoft’s search share moved up 0.4% to [...]

An interesting new study by the guys over at Catalyst Group shows that although users like Microsoft’s new search engine Bing, they are unlikely to switch.  From a usability focus group of 12 (expected to capture 80-90% of issues), after using both engines 8 said they preferred Google while 4 said they liked Bing.  That [...]

Photo credit: by Kris Kros Since its launch around 3 weeks ago there has been a lot of industry buzz and discussion about Bing’s pros and cons, whether the results are any good, and generally if it is actually any better than MSN’s previous incarnations. Read Jonny’s to Bing or not to Bing post for a more [...]