2009 and 2010 will be remembered as the time when the words "search" and "Microsoft" became closely associated in the minds of enterprise technology customers, vendors, and developers. In addition to the consumer-facing splash Microsoft has achieved with the innovative Bing, Microsoft has also been making major investments in its search offerings to businesses, government entities, and non-profits--both through internal R&D and a key acquisition. In this post, I will b ...

Seems that the dance will never end, but there is a real strong possibility this time that Microsoft and Yahoo will finally work out a deal.  With the dollars Microsoft is putting behind Bing, it may have been enough to get the attention of Yahoo! execs.    The last sticking point is related to an upfront cash payment Yahoo is seeking.  The driving factors driving the deal really boil down to: Microsoft has more money to develop better tools and doesn't really want to be in the ad busin ...

I noticed this question today. It illustrates how challenging it can be to attract traffic to your website, sometimes even after getting high rankings:   My website is page 1 on google and yahoo for my chosen keywords, yet I am not getting much traffic, why? I researched the keywords on the google ads keyword tool and they appeared to have high search volumes, yet I am not getting a thousandth of the searches predicted. I would recommend the following: Use Google Webmaster tool ...

Okay, I couldn’t help go back to a golden oldie in the Microsoft advertising annals. Back around 1995, this was the first global campaign for Microsoft…looking back using their new search engine Bing, I found a Wikipedia entry and another article talking about how people started answering the question literally by calling in and naming various places. http://www.denounce.com/mswhere.html So I digress, the start of this post was to be about Bing. I just figured it appropriate to search for s ...