Microsoft has finally redesigned the MSN site. The site, which will not be fully live until 2010, has been given a much more stripped down and cleaner look and has also been adapted to contain a column which is devoted to social networking sites Twitter and Facebook as well as a large search engine box. (more…)

Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally officially announced the search deal that has been heavily anticipated for the past few years. (more…)

Hot on the heels of yesterdays Google OS announcement the search engine giant has laid out the hardware companies that have pledged to build machines that will run Chrome OS. (more…)

The major search engines – Google, Yahoo and MSN – recently each announced that they were uniting on support of a tag that allows you to specify the canonical version of a page. It may sound technical, but in layman’s terms it is actually straight forward, and will help you to avoid duplicate content issues.

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Microsoft recently released an Alpha version of their open source content management sample, Oxite. You will find the system available under the Microsoft Public Licence as well as the CodePlex website.

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Let’s get creative people!!

Welcome to the world of home made display ads for the Google content network.

Its pretty quick and easy to create actually, and with over 40 templates to choose from, your sure to find something suitable. (more…)

The latest research commissioned by Microsoft and carried out by Nielsen NetRatings suggests there is a lot more to the ‘which engine’ decision than ad formats and CPCs.

The study (pdf) shows a significant difference in consumer attitudes to the different search engines which, crucially, can be leveraged to a marketers advantage. (more…)

Back in July 2008 Microsoft purchased semantic search engine Powerset, and have announced they are now testing the integration of Powerset technology into Live Search results.

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