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Bing & Yahoo:They’re here!!!

Yes, for those of you who haven’t heard about the “merging” of the Bing search engine and the Yahoo search engine – yup…it’s happening now, eh! Over the past year or so, after talks and deals being made, it was decided that from about mid-year or so in 2010, that the Yahoo search engine results would be supplied by the Bing search engine. We reported much more fully back in February on this here…. And the time it appears is now!

Google Adds TV Episode Search

Google’s latest search engine feature enables users to search for individual TV episodes and sort the results by season in each series.Just search for a TV series like Mad Men or The Office, then click the “Show options…” button above the results. A panel appears on the left with several options; you can click “Videos” to narrow your search to videos, and after that the option to search for “Episodes” instead of “All videos.”

Bing Expands Use Of Facebook ‘Likes’ In Search Results

One of the many Bing announcements today focused on an even deeper integration of Facebook data into Bing’s search results and rankings. For a couple months now, Bing has integrated “liked” content from Facebook into its search results in a distinct content area like this: But... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Breaking News: Bub-bye Yahoo!

Well, the official “merge” tween BING and Yahoo is complete for the search engine results… And Yahoo search is no more…. And the POWERED BY BING tag is now in the yahoo.ca footer too…. Announced just this am by Yahoo here…the skinny on same is pretty concise and brief – “Today I am happy to share that Bing is powering Yahoo!’s search results in the US and Canada (English only for now, the other languages will come in the weeks and months ahead)…”

New search tools for Yahoo, Flickr and Delicious

It was thought that the agreement with Microsoft sealed the death of web search projects at Yahoo. But the company had tied its communication and today launched several new projects in this area. Yahoo! is testing a new results page and improves the search tools on both Flickr and Delicious …

Optimizing Your Blog’s SEO With wpSEO Plugin

What’s SEO? Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site or a web page (such as a blog) from search engines via “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results as opposed to other forms of search engine marketing (SEM) which may deal with paid inclusion. According to wikipedia Simply said, good SEO will give you better rankings in search engines and therefore bring more traffic to your blog/website. WordPress and SEO WordPress has a fairly good SEO optimization by default but since there probably are many more blogs in your niche you need to take it further.

Yahoo Japan Signs Search Deal With Google

Yahoo Japan said it will be switching Yahoo’s search technology with Google’s search engine, dealing a serious blow to the global Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership.In July 2009, Yahoo signed a deal with Microsoft, under which Yahoo was to adopt Microsoft’s Bing as the search engine on all Yahoo sites. However, Yahoo only has a minority stake (35%) in Yahoo Japan, while the Japanese telecom giant Softbank owns 40% of the company, meaning that Yahoo didn’t have the final say in the decision.