Bing Turns Grinch for Cyber Monday

Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land provides a comprehensive report of what appears to be going on. It’s well worth reading if you enjoy drinking your egg nog flavored with a dose of real-life irony. I kept shaking my head, wondering what the folks at Microsoft...

Microsoft AdCenter Now Supports Negative Exact Match

Crosby Grant reported on the news for Search Engine Land. You can also find Microsoft’s own blog post by Tina Kelleher on its adCenter Blog, explaining the change. The timing could hardly be more perfect. Some marketers might have wished for more time to prepare...

Mozilla Releases New Version of Firefox for Bing Users

Building off the partnership that kicked off last year, Mozilla and Microsoft have just announced the existence of another joint venture with the rollout of the Firefox with Bing browser. As the name suggests, the new version of Mozilla’s popular browser uses...

Ballmer Blunt at Web 2.0 Summit

Not surprisingly, Yahoo was near the top of Battelle’s list of questions. The software giant tried to purchase the company a few years ago, but was rebuffed. That rejection looks foolish now, in the wake of the beleaguered search engine’s woes. So how does...

Bing Bleeding Billions from Microsoft

I can’t make up figures like this; I’m not nearly that good at math. Check out David Angotti’s item over at Search Engine Journal for the details. He got his basic numbers from CNN Money. However you slice them, though, they aren’t pretty....