Nokia Maps and Yahoo! Axis: Better than Bing?

A couple of Bing related news items today, both about other companies extending and improving upon Bing services, with more to come. First, Nokia and Bing Maps announced the furthering of their partnership on ... Read more »

Jerry Yang resigns from Yahoo!–will we learn the fate of Microsoft’s Bing-Yahoo! alliance soon?

In a press release today, Yahoo! announced the resignation from the Board of Directors and “all other positions with the company”, effective today.  Here’s Yang’s statement: "My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to ... Read more »

Microsoft, Silver Lake partnership reworking its Yahoo! bid, says Reuters

According to an article posted late last night on Reuters, a partnership of investors, including Microsoft and Silver Lake Partners, is reworking a bid for a minority stake in Yahoo!, which has been somewhat ... Read more »

More TOS changes, this time it’s Yahoo! (and we go back in time, to Windows Live Mail Active Search)

Early last week, Dropbox changed its Terms of Service and set off a bit of a tempest in a teacup.  Although since then, it’s become clear that the “uproar” didn’t bother investors too much, ... Read more »

Bing tests Amazon Product Reviews, Yahoo! Answers in search results

One nice thing about Bing, you can learn a lot about what’s (potentially) coming next as features are tested in various regions and markets around the world.  We’ve seen early testing as far back ... Read more »

Yahoo and Microsoft: is the honeymoon over?

This week a couple of news items seem to suggest that Microsoft and Yahoo, while still closely linked via their Search agreement, are beginning to air their differences.  As both partners and competitors, this ... Read more »

Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Alliance expands to five markets globally

The Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Alliance had been granted approval by the EU almost a year ago, and back in August 2010, the Search Alliance announced that all Yahoo! organic searches in US and Canada had ... Read more »

Yahoo! organic search in US, Canada now “Powered by Bing”

The Microsoft-Yahoo! search alliance continues to move forward on schedule, and today Microsoft Senior Vice President Satya Nadella announced “a great milestone for Bing and Yahoo!”, as all (organic, meaning non-paid) searches on Yahoo!, ... Read more »

Microsoft Yahoo! Search Alliance transition starts: US search market share to be at 31.6%

A blog post on the adCenter Blog at Microsoft Advertising reports that the transition of organic (algorithmic, or non-paid search results) search results from the Yahoo! search engine to Bing has begun.  Once the ... Read more »

Yahoo! organic search results powered by Bing “as early as late August”

The Microsoft-Yahoo! Search Alliance continues to progress, and in a post on the Yahoo! Search Marketing blog, it looks like the organic (non-paid) phase of the transition is just about complete.  From the blog ... Read more »