Bing

Bing and Yahoo to merge

Bing and Yahoo are to announce a merger deal today, which will see Bing used to power Yahoo searches in the future. The deal has been discussed for some time as a new strategy to overtake Google, which presently holds a 63% share of worldwide searches.

The deal should see Yahoo as a new platform to deliver on Microsoft’s new search technology, such as delivering highly-targeted ads, following its currently unsuccessful launch of the Bing brand.

Landing Page Confusion

I am going back to the very basics of SEO, as this is where some people fall down, making them unable to explore deeper into the discipline. To understand SEO, you have to understand that an SEO campaign has to have a strategy behind which page will focus on which search terms.

Will Bing be a success?

The news has started to filter down that Bing has leapfrogged Yahoo into the slot as the second biggest search engine, taking only two weeks from its launch to do so.

This is hardly surprising and anyone drawing hasty conclusions about this meaning a rapid demise for Google or Yahoo should be disqualified for jumping the gun ridiculously early.

Pinging Your Sitemap To Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and even Ask

There are plenty of sites that have these links but thought it would be a good idea to post here. This is pinging your sitemap to the search engines. You have gone through the whole kafuffle  (first time I have ever wrote kafuffle in my life) of creating a sitemap so it’s a shame not to tell the search engines about it. The following therefore are links that allow you to ping your sitemap to Google, Yahoo!, MSN and even Ask: