Microsoft Research had recently released a paper [PDF] titled Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers. The paper categorized SERPS by industry and is showing that some categories such as drugs and ringtones include as much as 30% spam in their SERPS.
In outlining the manner of collecting these SERPS Microsoft Research noted:
In late September 2006, […]
Comcast who is one of the biggest non-Google sources of search queries handled by Google, is apparently unsatisfied with it’s current compensation plan with Google and is now considering crossing the street to Microsoft.
Comcast who will make approx $70 million from Google sponsored ads this year feels as if it is worth no less than […]
It’s the move many have predicted for a while now, Live Search is moving up. With the introduction of Windows Vista which has Live Search set as the default search engine many have predicted that it may help Microsoft gain some market share, something it’s been struggling with for years now.
The recent figures published by […]
Last week comScore issued it’s monthly search engine usage report which showed that the release of IE7 & Live.com did not help Microsoft gain market share, not even maintain it. It keeps losing it and have reached a new all-time low of 10.5%.
This week Microsoft is affirming these results lowering it’s search growth expectations from […]
Live.com/MSN is reportedly warning webmasters from purchasing / exchanging links with old sites. In a recent SEW thread, the writer quotes an exclusion email from Live.com:
Your site is acquiring links through posting to or exchanging links with sites unrelated to your site content. Techniques which attempt to acquire unrelated spam links in order to increase […]
Did you know that in the past Google had donated $30K while earning over $800,000,000. Microsoft, on the other hand had donated over $63 Million at the same period of time.
This is a fun post from SEOBlackHat asking, based on the above facts, “What is Google putting in the freaking Koolaid to make this a […]
ASK had reached a deal which will allow it to aggregate it’s search results to the “the fifth most popular U.S. Web portal”, Lycos. Under the terms of the deal, Ask.com will provide Web search, image search, and zoom search for the Lycos Network. As part of the deal, Lycos will also start using […]
Ms. Dewey is a promotional flash based search engine made by Microsoft. It features actress Janina Gavankar who makes your search a bit more, how should I say it, sexy…
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MSN’s Live search had introduced today a new search operator: LinkFromDomain. This operator is intended to show one all the outbound-links from a domain (ie. all the links out of Search Engine Herald).
Some of you may found this powerful in your seo-related researches being able to know if specific domains link to specific domains / […]
Microsoft had issued a press release today announcing the official launch of their Live Search and Live Local Search which now replaces their old search platform.
So far results are very clean, I see no premium ads above content but only on the right. For some searches the top right column features “more searches” list which […]
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