Tag Archives: Microsoft

Word Association And Clarity of Focus In The Search Space

This post was written by Chris Copeland and published in MediaPost’s Search Insider, Friday, August 28, 2009 The elevator speech. It’s one of the prerequisites of business development. In the time you can spend with someone on a 30-second ride, … Continue reading

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Search Syndication – A Classic Case of Bait & Switch

Imagine you are the marketing director of a large, respectable corporation. You’ve approved advertising on a few prominent billboards around the city. Then, while taking a restroom break at a shoddy gas station along the highway, you notice the ad … Continue reading

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Microsoft and Yahoo! Deal: Increased Scale and Competition Deliver Value, But Questions Remain

After years of discussion and speculation around a business deal between Microsoft and Yahoo!, an agreement has been reached that strengthens both companies and creates heightened competition against Google. In the deal, Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, will power Yahoo! … Continue reading

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Where is Bing Now?

In November of last year, I wrote a post about the changes coming to Microsoft’s search engine. In this post I highlighted some of the plans for upgrades and the new branding push of 2009. Now that we have seen … Continue reading

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Microsoft (David) vs. Click Fraud (Goliath), Let’s Go MSFT!

I know from the title alone that people are scratching their heads and wondering how the heck I could apply the title of “David” to a behemoth of a company like Microsoft.  I can because Microsoft last week announced a … Continue reading

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2009: Year of the Calculated Risk

This post was written by Chris Copeland, CEO, GroupM Search – The Americas, and published in MediaPost’s Search Insider, Friday, January 16, 2009. It’s become the vogue pastime to prognosticate trends and events to come in the new year. This … Continue reading

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I'm Rubber, You're Glue: Yahoo, Google and the Future of SEO

Last week, both Yahoo and Google introduced changes to the U.S. search results experience. Yahoo brought Glue to the States; the original version was introduced in India. Google brought forward GoogleWiki, which is about as close as Google has ever … Continue reading

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I’m Rubber, You’re Glue: Yahoo, Google and the Future of SEO

Last week, both Yahoo and Google introduced changes to the U.S. search results experience. Yahoo brought Glue to the States; the original version was introduced in India. Google brought forward GoogleWiki, which is about as close as Google has ever … Continue reading

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The Yang Legacy

Last  night, Yahoo announced that Jerry Yang would end his second tour of duty as CEO. Called out of retirement during the Summer of 2007 to help Yahoo adapt to life after the Terry Semel regime, to say that the … Continue reading

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Does MSN Live Search Matter?

Does MSN Live Search matter? In a nutshell, YES. This is especially true for search marketers, as it may be the last major search property left that is not partnering with Google for search ads. Ask.com has been backfilling their … Continue reading

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