Microsoft to Run a Massive Bing TV Campaign in the UK

The Guardian UK is reporting that Microsoft Bing is preparing to launch a massive TV ad campaign aimed at challenging Google’s dominance in the UK search market. According to the report, the series of  Bing promotional TV ads is set to begin airing this week and will be promoting Bing as a “decision engine.” Microsoft has contracted the services of ad agency JWT. It aims to show how Bing simplifies the “information overload” that accompanies the results of  other search engines – obviously hitting on Google

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Microsoft to Run a Massive Bing TV Campaign in the UK

Weekly Search & Social News: 02/23/2010

Welcome to another edition of ‘ 7 Days of Search and Social ‘ – it was a fairly quiet week out on the trails last week and there reall were no real ‘zinger’ stories that got the search world in a tizzy (who knew?

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Weekly Search & Social News: 02/23/2010

Google to Offer 1Gbps Broadband Internet Speed

Google is at it again. Dreaming the impossible dream and planning to achieve something no matter what that cost may be, or even perhaps whether it is going to be a boom or fail

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Google Gains Smartphone Market Share Even without Nexus One

Since I’m currently so into the Nexus One right now, exploring the nifty features of Google Buzz for mobile, let me follow up my previous post with another piece about Google’s mobile phone undertakings. This time, lets look into the recently released comScore report showing that trend in the smartphone industry from October-Deember 2009.

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Evolve Your PPC With Mobile Advertising

While it’s ironic that my first guest post on Search Engine Journal would be due on the eve of one of the most highly anticipated product release press conferences of the year, it’s the other rumors coming from this company that excite me the most. Today, it is rumored, that Apple is releasing their iTablet / Slate / Dinner Plate portable computing device at their Press Event ( watch it live on Engadget starting at 10 a.m.

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Evolve Your PPC With Mobile Advertising

Google Still the Top Search Property Worldwide in 2009

Latest data from comScore are showing familiar trends in the global search market once again, except for one peculiar point.  Interestingly, while Google retains its lead among the search properties worldwide, Microsoft’s search market share seemed to be growing by leaps and bounds. Of course, Yahoo still got the lowest percentage change in search market for 2009 among these three major search engines.

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Google Still the Top Search Property Worldwide in 2009

YouTube Embraces HTML 5 Video, Experimentally

YouTube recently stated that they want to help push HTML 5 to the forefront and have begun a more robust experiment to use it on their site. You have to opt-in to beta program in order to see the HTML 5 pages and there are some serious limitations to what it can do right now. In a recent blog post, YouTube has stated that the number one request from user (hard to believe) was that YouTube do more with HTML 5

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YouTube Search Accounts for Nearly 28% of all Google Searches

A little over a year ago, comScore’s US Search Rankings Report for Dec.

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Google Gets 72% of Searches in December 2009 (Hitwise)

Following up Nielsen search market share data, Hitwise has also released their search metrics for December 2009. And just like Nielsen’s stats, Google is also leading the pack, getting 72.5% of all searches conducted in the U.S.

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Google Now Corrupting Lingual Identity

Last night was yet another mixed bag for me – got to sleep earlier than usual, and woke up after just a few hours.  While I’m not usually pleased about that, I’m glad that happened this time.  First, because I had a brainstorm idea come upon me just as I was falling asleep, and again as soon as I woke.  It’s amazing how creative ideas come like that.  Just as important however, is the fact that I signed onto Twitter at a time when I’m usually tucked comfortably in for the night, and would normally have missed a rather jarring tweet provided by @JoannaButler This led to a screen-cap Joanna posted pointing out how a search on Google’s UK site for “search engine optimisation” (note the “UK” spelling of “optimisation” as compared to the American spelling of “optimization”) brought back results with the default being the AMERICAN version, and a link to “search instead for optimisation “. I was floored.  Stunned.  Confused. Joanna then went on to provide a retweet of an article from Nichola Stott over at SEOChicks who was all over this issue and found this problem to be widespread among a plethora of other words where the “s” and the “z” are used based on where in the world you live and within your specific cultural experience.

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