Bing vs Google: Battle of the Search Engines

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The New York Times ran a recent article on Microsoft regarding its search engine being regarded as an underdog. Despite being an interesting article, it also raised some interesting questions. A few being:

  • How long (in years) before Bing breaks even?
  • What currently defines Bing and what may define its success?
  • How likely is it that investors will oust Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer because of the failed (and money losing) Online Services and what would be the outcome?
  • What are the features and tools of Bing that may break through Goole usage and cause it to decline?
  • What would happen if Bing peaks at 25 percent?

How Long is ‘Long Term’.

Having launched two years ago, Bing, has made a respectable gain within the search engine market during that time. Commanding 14.4 percent of search query volume in the US (per comScore). This however has mostly come at the expense of other search providers: AOL, Ask and Yahoo. The search engine has not been able to erode Google’s dominant market share of 65.5 percent. It has however managed to make Google adapt in several ways, especially to the integration of social signals.

Microsoft’s head of search has said, “To break through, we have to change the game. But this is a long-term journey.” This is true but how long is that? 10, 15 or even 20 years? It is probable to say the Bing must break or otherwise demonstrate real success before it hits ten years old. However if it doesn’t what would be the implications? Shut it down – not very likely.

Bing doesn’t match Googles earlier growth.

After its initial four years of search engine services, Google was already a leading search engine among a field of around 10. After a following year, Google was dominant with over 50 percent of the worlds search engine queries.

Admittedly the search engine market today is a far cry from that of a decade ago, but matched with Google early growth and trajectory, Bing is way off.

With wide anticipation that Bing will pass its partner search engine, Yahoo within the next year, people have to ask since Bing is providing Yahoo’s organic and paid search is the achievement something to be proud of? If Bing’s growth comes at the expense of Yahoo, it is then mostly counterproductive, because Bing itself is damaging its Bing-Powered sites.

Seeking the Wedge

From this point it is a challenge to imagine what Bing might bring in features or specific capabilities that would improve its situation as dramatically as required for a larger market share. Bing Travel has been mentioned as a differentiator, but with Google beginning to build its own travel service (following its ITA acquisition) that doesn’t seem to be the way forward. The ‘strategic verticals’ of Bing between travel, local, health, shopping etc have still to yield the benefits and usage growth that Microsoft was hoping for.

Even with Bing releasing new and innovative products ( iPad app, facebook integration etc) none of these products have had the stopping power to slow Google. With Google+ recent release the advantage Bing has with its ‘social search’ through its relationship with Facebook will be diminished even further.

Android Tax and Antitrust affect

Recently Microsoft has been exhorting the US and EU to impose restrictions on Google due to the alleged anti-competitive practices. However some of these practices (such as sending traffic to its own properties) are used just as readily by Bing and Yahoo, therefore making any potential restrictions around that practice equally problematic for Bing.

The outcomes of active antitrust investigations across Europe and within the US are uncertain but are unlikely to result in any real upheaval of the current market balance and share. However it is also unlikely that Google will emerge damage free from the allegations.

At the same time as all this, Microsoft has been trying with limited success to get mobile hardware producers (HTC, Samsung etc) to pay licensing fees on Android handsets in deference of Microsoft patents used within the handsets. This is Microsoft’s attempt to generate revenue (potentially billions) and eliminate the perceived gap between Android with its free software and Microsoft’s priced system.

The success of Android and the dominance of the iPhone have help increase Google search dominance beyond its share on the PC. And though not an apparent part of either the European or American antitrust investigations I see Google’s control over Android being potentially vulnerable in the long term.

Upping the Intensity

Bing’s high intensity effort is paying off and the search engines market share is increasing however not at a level that Microsoft needs if it is ever going to truly challenge Google over a ‘long term time period’. Bing will need to continue to develop novel tools and features and improvement will need to be continued on current features (Improve Bing News to rival Google News etc)

Microsoft will also need to continue to purchase other internet systems, but at increased frequency and at a much reduced cost (Skype was a whopping $8.5 billion). Microsoft must recognise sensible marketing purchase and aim to beat Google during bidding to prevent losing out to Google (The Dealmap went to Google, Microsoft should have upped the bid).

Bing also needs to focus on developing its search system to be usable by both ends of the user spectrum, from the early adopter’s right through to new users. It must be appealing to all user groups to ensure growth in its market share and managing this is very difficult.

Renew your domain name or you will lose it!

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Hi Guys

renew your domain name with evolvenet web design birminghamToday i will try to give you informaion regarding Domain Name Renewals. For thsoe of us who are familiar with the term they will try to avoid being the next innocent vicitim who forgets to renwe their domain name. Of courese all bad things happen in pairs so once you have lost your domain name you pretty much have to except that you have also lost your website.

Please dont let this happen to you!
Having been developing website for more then 10 years i have come across afew occasions when someone has either by mistake or for the sake of afew pounds has left it to late and has had to pretty much start again.

.co.uk domain names must be renewed every 2 years. In the case of a .com domain name you can renew a domain name for upto 10 years. in either case it is very easy to forget to renew it when the domain name comes up for renewal

Evolvenet.co.uk will email you 30 days before the domain name is up for renewal. If of some reason you don’t receive the email, let us look at how you can prevent loosing your website.

What Is Domain Name Renewal
Domain name reneal is a process of buying additional time to use your domain name,Cuntry to belief a domain name is not for life. You are merely leasing it for the allotted time, usually 1 or 2 years.You can choose to keep the domain name by renewing it once the allotted time is up.

The only way you can hold onto a domain is to renew it.

Be Aware Of Domain Name Renewal Scams
Stay alert, the net is full of companies allowing you to renew a domain name for 100 years. Customers are always complaining about renewal scanm service letters. The longest you are allowed to renew a domain name for is 10 years in the case of .com you can only renew for 2 years in the case of .co.uk

Domain Name Renewal – Don’t Forget Or You Lose

 

How often should your website be redesigned?

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SEO Search Engine Optimalisation BirminghamMore often then you think!

Your website is your business. It is were your customers can find all relevant information about your company, opening closing hours, contact details as well as product and services details

Why should you consider upgrading/re-designing your website

  • Does your current website reflect your company’s current brand and identity?
  • Does your website have a high bounce rate; this is to say that do visitors leave the site without browsing through any of your pages.
  • Does your website bring in new leads? How well is it performing, if your answer is I don’t know to the above two questions you should consider a re-design.
  • Does your website display correctly in all browsers?
  • Does your website rank high on the major Search Engines? If no then please read on.

Being a leading Web Design and SEO company, Evolvenet offer you the following:

1. A choice of many different key phrase packages to suit all budgets: All competitive terms chosen to give you an excellent return on investment.

2. No large signing up fee or long term contract: We do not ask for any up front payments and you only have to sign up for an initial 6 month period before choosing whether or not to continue for a further 6 months depending on your results.

3. Regular monthly amount: You pay an affordable monthly amount for the service.

4. On page and off page optimisation: We do all the on page and off page optimisation to your site unlike some of our competitors who emphasise you must do the on page work yourselves.

5. Regular reports: We will send you a report every month to show the work that has been carried out.

Don’t waste another second, Evolvenet Web Design Solutions help to move your web site towards the first page of Google as we have done successfully for some of our clients below:

Domain Name: http://www.kingdomappliances.co.uk keyword: Cheap kitchen appliances Page 1
Domain Name: http://www.kolourkolour.co.uk/ keyword: Barbershop Supplies Page 1
Domain Name: https://www.evolvenet.co.uk keyword: web design in birmingham Page 1
Domain Name: http://www.crystaleleganceuk.co.uk/ keyword: crystal brooches Page 1
Domain Name: http://www.flatpack2go.co.uk/ keyword: flat pak coffe tables Page 1
Domain Name: http://www.flatpack2go.co.uk/ keyword: flat pak furniture Page 1
Domain Name: http://www.flatpack2go.co.uk/ keyword: online furniture store Page 2
Domain Name:
www.mesmerizedesigns.com/   keyword: swarovski crystal jewellery Page 2
Domain Name:
www.petalsofmadinah.co.uk keyword: flower shops birmingham Page 2

We would love to discuss your requirements and solutions in more detail, so if you would like to hear more on how we can help your site increase it’s return on investment, then please contact me on 0121 448 0941 or email me on info@evolvenet.co.uk

I look forward to hearing from you.

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Microsoft: IE6 countdown website

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Birmingham web design companyIE6 was released in August 2007, shortly after the completion of Windows XP. In April 2009 Microsft stopped mainstream support for XP and withit support for IE6.

IE6 is by far the most hated browser in the world, on the 4th of March Microsft took a stand to show all of us that its listening and created a website www.theie6countdown.com

Currently the IE6 is used by 12% of the browser market. Microsft are hopping to drop this to 1%. Help Evolvenet help Microsft by sharing this post to everyone you know. Upgrade to IE7 or IE8 or even better Firefox. lol

Finally we web developers can stop spending hours of coding time trying to insure your website is compatible.

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marioestrada
on March 4, 2011
1:07 PM
If you’re on IE6 or IE7 do us all a favor and download Chrome or Firefox, please Reply | Quote
lurker101
on March 4, 2011
1:55 PM
marioestrada said:
If you’re on IE6 or IE7 do us all a favour and delete your system32 folder

fix’dReply | Quote

mattfrompa
on March 4, 2011
1:56 PM
lurker101 said:

marioestrada said:
If you’re on IE6 or IE7 do us all a favor and delete your system32 folder

fixedReply | Quote

catburst
on March 4, 2011
2:31 PM
or operaReply | Quote
ahmed90
on March 4, 2011
2:56 PM
well as a web designer / master thy should kill both IE6 and IE7 to make our life waaay easier Reply | Quote
Guest
on March 4, 2011
3:07 PM
IE6 is my third choice for browser, just after Opera 10.63 and Firefox 3.6.3 and I don’t have plans to update to the versions 7 or 8. Obviously I am a happy user of XP.
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Guest
on March 4, 2011
3:10 PM
This we can call: “The XP Conspiracy” Reply | Quote
Guest
on March 4, 2011
3:17 PM
IE6 was and is a great product!… Ten years and still keeps working!… The same that Windows XP.Reply | Quote
Guest
on March 4, 2011
3:21 PM
The countdown will take a long time!
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TrekExpert
on March 4, 2011
3:41 PM
Mozilla or Google should have a countdown for people to get off Internet Explorer altogether. After all, friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer.Reply | Quote
jwdR1
on March 4, 2011
4:37 PM
This makes me want to reinstall just to see if I can help make the number go up! Reply | Quote
w3b0n
on March 4, 2011
4:43 PM
TrekExpert said:
Mozilla or Google should have a countdown for people to get off Internet Explorer altogether. After all, friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer.

bahaha very trueReply | Quote

lawfer
on March 4, 2011
4:45 PM
lurker101 said:

marioestrada said:
If you’re on IE6 or IE7 do us all a favour and delete your system32 folder

fix’d

I lol’edReply | Quote

SNGX1275
on March 4, 2011
4:48 PM
IE6 is my third choice for browser, just after Opera 10.63 and Firefox 3.6.3 and I don’t have plans to update to the versions 7 or 8. Obviously I am a happy user of XP.

Does Opera 11 require Vista or 7? I doubt it would, so if it doesn’t, why 10.63?Reply | Quote

Guest
on March 4, 2011
9:47 PM
Opera’s the best!Reply | Quote
Route44
on March 4, 2011
9:55 PM
On both my XP machines I cannot in any way upgrade to IE 8 because neither PCs will connect once I install it. I have to revert back to 7. Why? I haven’t a clue. Both machines predominantly use Firefox but if I want to continue to receive XP updates I need IE.Reply | Quote
lurker101
on March 4, 2011
11:21 PM
That’s a problem with your rigs, not XP. My XP64 connects just fine with both x86 and x64 variants of IE8.Reply | Quote
nismo91
on March 5, 2011
12:48 AM
On both my XP machines I cannot in any way upgrade to IE 8 because neither PCs will connect once I install it. I have to revert back to 7. Why? I haven’t a clue. Both machines predominantly use Firefox but if I want to continue to receive XP updates I need IE.

have you tried into IE9 RC?

the moment IE7 was launched I immediately installed it (from Beta 2 to RC2 and finally the final version). by that time i’ve already used firefox, but i cannot even stand having IE6 as my backup browser.Reply | Quote

derwynr
on March 5, 2011
6:07 AM
Have been using IE9 in both beta and RC and loving both. for me the offerings like Opera, Chrome and Firefox just dont cut the musterd, and oh yes I’ve tried them all.Reply | Quote
Route44
on March 5, 2011
10:41 AM
Yeah, I realize it probably is with my rigs but I am not sweating it considering they run quite well.

As for IE9, I could be mistaking but I thought MS said it would not be compatible with XP. Someone with greater knowledge help me out.Reply | Quote

lurker101
on March 5, 2011
12:31 PM
There’s a good chance that, just like Windows Live Messenger and Microsoft Security Essentials, it’ll run just fine on all versions of XP, Vista and Win7, but the installer will prevent you from installing on XP64Reply | Quote
Lokalaskurar
on March 5, 2011
4:24 PM
Gotta love this statement from Eduard Johnson, NSRR:

“For all of those who has not seen a fully-functional HTML5-website with the truly beautiful CSS3 implemented: you’re rather unfortunate – download Chrome, Safari and/or Opera, and experience the full beauty of the World Wide Web” .Reply | Quote

Guest
on March 6, 2011
5:23 AM
IE9 FTW!!

Apart from give me a downloads shortcut icon plx microsoft Reply | Quote

fpsgamerJR62
on March 6, 2011
5:28 AM
Short of having a mission-critical application that runs only on IE6, I can’t think of any reason why anyone would still be using that antiquated browser. I very seldom run IE8 and only to connect to Windows Update.Reply | Quote

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WordPress.com hit by DDos attack

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Birmingham website designersRecently March 3rd WordPress.com was attached.  13 percent 1,000,000 of the biggest website had experienced performance or loss of connectivity due to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Normal service was restored 10 hours after the initial attach.

Evolvenet  have been recommending bespoke Content Managment System (CMS) as apposite to the FREE systems available on the internet also know as open source Content Management System (CMS) right from the start.

So what is an open source cms “system” or should I say what is open source.

The basic explanation is that it is a FREE system, application, forum or a blog you can download and have access to all its original source giving a coder the opportunity to look at, explore and even improve the system. having 100s of developers willing to lend a hand to improve a peace of coding obviously gives this type of system huge strength as well as its biggest weakness.

If your website is being or was developed using an open source system then you will need to insure the files are kept upto date as loopholes are found on a daily bases, hacking instructing / venerabilities are very quickly circulated around the internet and of course what was once a dark art and only something a true hacker could do is very readily available to a basic to advance user.

At evolvenet we always advice that when building your website we use our in-house Content Management System (CMS).  the only time we would suggest open source is if you wanted a blog or a forum on your website. As a blog or forum is not necessarily the main part of your website, merely a stand alone addition being used less then 10% of the time. If this goes down then you don’t loose everything. At evolvenet we value your website and content, we don’t want you to loose anything, after all weather you add one blog a year or 1000 its time you have spent doing so.

At evolvenet we back the database your website data is stored in every night, If need be we can restore it quickly. WordPress is a prime example no website is un-hackable. Sooner or later they allways get in. Better to be safe then sorry, backup all your data.

SEO Birmingham : Google has updated its Algorithm

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Search Engine Optimisation Just a quick update, we are currently doing a lot of SEO for our clients. This latest update confirms what we have been saying for years google will be penalising 1 in 8 websites for poor content quality.

So what does this new update to our favorite search engine mean, well we will all need to start paying more attention to the content of our website, Google likes Original non-copied content.

If your a website owner it is better if you spend more time developing new content. Google likes website that have new content posted on a regular bases. Why do you think twitter and facebook do so well.

Other owners will need to look at the website and see if the site could do with changes to the site structure. You can re-code a website to help Bots easily find the most relevant content on your website.

The changes will effect websites on both ends of the spectrum, high ranking and low ranking websites. If you have a low quality site it will reduce your ranking and of course if you have a high quality site then it will increase your ranking.

Iphone App development update….

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iphone app development in BirminghamIts been nearly 1 month since I last posted on our iphone hello world app. I am very pleased to say that we have moved significantly further. Its not been easy. Apple isn’t one to make life easier for new developers. We had to upgrade all the Apple Macs from the G4-G5 Processors upto the new Intel based machines not to mention the upgrade to Leopard. Very costly indeed.

I’m always encouraging my clients to blog as it helps with SEO,  I guess I best get busy and lead from the front.