Microsoft, the bleedin’ advertisers
This week Microsoft produced their annual report for 2012. It’s been commented on by many and the main theme seems to be that they’ve reported their first quarterly loss since ages (or ever). Well, yes. And so what? The Online Services Division, a eufemism for “we wanna go where Google went” has been a […]
Three Google Hacks directed at WordPress and Buddy Press
These are not high level attacks, rather these fall more into the recon stage to identify specific software running on sites that are indexed by Google. The good part is that these work in Bing as well making them much more functional in terms of iden…
Three Designs for Presenting Tweets in Search Results
In a recent post, I described some ways in which tweets should be ranked in search results. A good follow-on question is… How should tweets be presented in search results? It’s an interesting question – how exactly would you want to see tweets in your Google and Bing search results? And it’s an important question, […]
Hiring for Social Media
If you have not been reading Amber Naslund lately, you are missing a great deal of information on how to hire for social media. Amber goes through many different processes that businesses must look at to find the right person for any social media process that a company will attempt. As social media moves beyond […]
Blogging Those Tweets? Get Rid of the Nofollows
A regular habit I have is to blog My Ten Favorite Tweets for each week. These are my own tweets, and they mostly contain links to interesting things during the past seven days. One thing I’ve always liked is that I can give “link credit” to the sites that I include in these weekly posts. […]
How Should Tweets Be Ranked in Search Engine Results?
Anyone remember when Loic LeMeur had the temerity to suggest Twitter rank its search results by the number of followers people have? His post, with 109 comments and reaction from Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble and many others, clearly struck a nerve. Fast forward to the past couple weeks. Both Microsoft Bing and Google announced deals […]
Bing – Google Mashups in Abundance
Congratulations to the WSJ for discovering Bingle, a mashup of Bingle and Google that displays search results side-by-side. It’s really handy, but nothing new and nothing out of ordinary. There’s also Bing & Google, Bing vs. Google – all three have been available for months, and there are probably a lot more. It takes close […]
Bing Visual Search: Just A Novelty?
Microsoft today announced Bing Visual Search, a visual way of searching the web. Being completely satisfied with what I am getting with Google, this is just bells and whistles for me. With Visual Search, users will be able to search by the click of mouse. For example, if the users want to find the line […]
One Swallow Doth Not a Summer Make
Before any wit comes up with any other suggestions for the meaning of the title of this post, the “swallow” in the above refers to the bird, Stelgidopteryx serripennis, and not the physiological movement, phagia. For one swallow does not make the summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short […]
Why Bing is Gaining on Google
OK, I admit, today is humor day. I got special permission from Ben to do one more, then we’re back to regular programming. Bing is gaining on Google. Do you know why? Check these Google image search results for the keyword Bing. My friend and CloudAve guest blogger Chris Yeh could come up with all […]
