Text search can only take you so far. Sometimes, you know exactly what something looks like, but you just can’t remember the name. A new BingBing feature called Visual Search will come in very handy in such cases.
Looking like something coming from Apple’s labs, Visual Search presents you with a grid of images, making it easy to find exactly what you need without having to know its exact name.
It works great when, for example, you’re shopping for gadgets or looking for a famous person whose name you just cannot remember. You can also start by browsing; for example, the Visual Search lets you visualize MLB players, after which you can filter them out by their earnings and various game stats… Read on at mashable.com
A week and a half ago, we highlighted numbers from StatCounter that demonstrated that GoogleGoogle was losing market share to BingBing. This made sense: Bingis a new search engine with heavy marketing and compelling features. Numbers released by Nielsen tell a similar story: while Googlegrew from June to July, it still lost market share to its competitors – from 66.1% in June to 64.8% in July, a 1.3 percentage point drop. However, a closer look at the numbers reveals that Bing wasn’t the primary culprit – it was Yahoo which stole Google’s market share… Read on at mashale.com
Yesterday, Yahoo and Microsoft finally announced the big deal that would transform their “search platforms into a market competitor.” Microsoft will power Yahoo Search, while Yahoo gets a revenue sharing agreement. How did Wall Street react? While Microsoft investors and shareholders had a mildly positive reaction to the deal, Yahoo shares sunk. By billions of dollars. We were hoping that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would have something interesting to say about the market’s reaction to the search deal. And once again, he does not fail us. At a meeting with industry analysts this morning, Microsoft’s leader described the negative reaction of Yahoo investors to the deal with three words: “Nobody gets it.”Read on at Mashable.com
It’s official: Yahoo is dumping its own search technology in favor of Microsoft’s BingBing. Although searches conducted on Yahoo will still have the company’s branding and interface, for at least the next decade, the results will be based on Bing’s algorithms. However, this isn’t the first time in Yahoo’s 15 year history that it has ceded its search business to a competitor. From 2000 to 2004, Yahoo search results were powered by a relatively new up-and-comer: GoogleGoogle. That deal allowed Google to grab enormous marketshare in terms of search volume, even if the search results themselves were showing up on Yahoo’s site. When Yahoo dumped Google in favor of its own search technology in 2004, they estimated that they’d instantly have grabbed back better than 50 percent of the search market… Read on at Mashable.com
A few months from now, Yahoo’s search engine will be “powered by BingBing.” After months of back and forth between Microsoft and Yahoo, the two companies finally announced a deal today that will bring Microsoft’s search engine to Yahoo’s properties, while Yahoo will become the sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. Barring any roadblocks from industry and government regulators, this deal will grant Microsoft an exclusive license to Yahoo’s core search technologies for 10 years. Yahoo expects that this deal will increase the company’s cash flow by about $275 million… Read on at ReadWriteWeb.com
As we first reported yesterday, Microsoft and Yahoo are on the verge of announcing a complicated search and search marketing alliance that will combine the no. 2 and no. 3 players in search into something that may have a chance of competing with GoogleGoogle (although combined they will still have less than half of Google’s 65% or so search market share). The deal will be announced shortly after signing, and could come as early as today (Wednesday). If the deal is completed it will close the 18-month long negotiation that began with a $45 billion merger offer on February 1, 2009. The details of the deal will determine the bump in Yahoo’s share price, something investors really desperately desire… Read on at TechCrunch.com
How would such a deal be structured? According to the report:
“Yahoo would be allowed to sell search ads on BingBing.com as well as its own site, giving it more search inventory to sell and making it a bigger player in the search sales front. It would also immediately be able to save millions by not having to maintain its own search infrastructure. The latest terms of the deal underscore Microsoft’s devotion to developing and owning technology vs. selling media.” Read on at Mashable.com
BingBing was the first of the big search engines to integrate TwitterTwitter into results, albeit, not in the most exciting of implementations. Today, Microsoft’s fledgling search tool is doing a bit more with TwitterTwitter, launching BingTweets, a separate site that combines Bing search with Twitter search and trending topics. Read on at Mashable…
As we recently reported, BingBing had a pretty solid first month, with nearly 50 million visitors in the US alone in June. While much of that traffic was simply re-directed from Microsoft’s old search engine, Live.com, most reports indicate that there was indeed some growth to be had as the company spent big money on advertising and garnered favorable reviews from many analysts. Read on at Mashable…
I think it’s safe to say that the initial boost from the BingBing launch is pretty much over, but as that pricey marketing campaign continues to run on televisions around the country, the number of unique Bing visitors (according to Compete) is rising steadily. Read on at webpronews…
Text search can only take you so far. Sometimes, you know exactly what something looks like, but you just can’t remember the name. A new BingBing
feature called Visual Search will come in very handy in such cases.
A week and a half ago, we highlighted numbers from StatCounter that demonstrated that 