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Potential Microsoft CEO Elop Would Consider Selling Bing

The Microsoft CEO derby is heating up. As we discussed earlier this week the short list is down to a handful of candidates, including current Ford CEO Alan Mulally and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop (soon to rejoin Microsoft in charge of devices). Apparently Elop has floated some...
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Microsoft now rolling out new Bing Chat features including chat history, mobile features, and more

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced a number of new features for Bing Chat, now many of them are live. Earlier this month, Microsoft announced several new features for Bing Chat, to celebrate the launch of Bing Chat and co-pilot 100 days ago. Some of those features w...
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How Storage Asset Management succeeds with a focus on reviews and social media

SAM relies heavily on customer reviews, managed through Reputation Pennsylvania-based Storage Asset Management, known as SAM, has an effective marketing strategy. Unusually, however, the company isn’t really striving to market itself. “We are actually guilty of not doing a great...
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Developing a schema strategy for local business: An interview with Schema App’s Martha van Berkel

Semantic markup offers the most clear-cut opportunity to tell search engines about your small business website. Discover the benefits and learn how you can get started. Jamie Pitman: Martha, thanks for taking the time to speak to me. I’ve been a big fan of what you folks do over...
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Bing Webmaster Tools to gain Bing Chat impressions and clicks next month

We will soon be able to see how much visibility and traffic Bing Chat is sending our web sites. Microsoft will include Bing Chat data in Bing Webmaster Tools in May, Fabrice Canel, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, said on Twitter. Canel announced that data from Bing...
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Bing Beats Google With Bitcoin Conversion Tool

First Yandex, and now Bing has beaten Google to offer Bitcoin conversion prices. Bing has announced that people can find the current rates by doing a search on Bing. Bing shared the news in a blog post today. It can be triggered in various ways, such as asking “one dollar in...
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Bing: Again, Why We Are Better Than Google At Image Search

Several months ago, Bing told us seven ways Bing is better than Google at image search. This week, Bing posted more examples in the Bing blog of why Bing is better than Google at image search. The examples are of course specific sets of queries that show better results for Bing...
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Bing Celebrates Its 5th Birthday With A Walk Down Memory Lane & Extra Search Reward Credits

To celebrate its 5th birthday today, Bing has posted a retrospective of the last five years and is offering Bing Reward credit perks for any users who search on the site between now and June 9. Going all the way back to 2009, Microsoft’s search engine outlined its initial goals...
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Bing Mobile Domain Returns Service Unavailable 503 Error

If you try to access Bing Mobile at m.bing.com, you will be presented with an error message. The error will read: The page you want isn’t available We’re working to restore service as soon as possible. The server error code also returns a major error, specifically a 503 error...
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The new Bing: No more waiting list?

Many people who had been on the Bing waitlist now have access – and there are reports that people can now sign up for instant access. Is the waiting list to test drive the new Bing gone? It sure looks that way. We were alerted to this development by a story on Windows Central....