Bing beats Google in finding me first PDC09 breakfast
It’s a coincidence I’ve been so Bing-oriented lately, but there will be other topics soon enough. Even at the risk of sounding like a Bing fanboy, I’ll post this. Good morning, LA! It’s 6 am and I haven’t been sleeping for a while now (ten hour jetlag doesn’t really help). So breakfast time is approaching […]
November 15, 2009
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Jouni Heikniemi · 
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Tags: Bing, Google, maps, PDC09, search · Posted in: Web
Bing’s next wave of services rolling out
Looking at Bing’s new search features, I can’t help wondering if the attachment to Google is like using the console instead of windowed applications: I’ve always done it, and it gives me more raw data. Do I really want raw data? Google is great at searching, and Bing’s quest to catch it seems impossible, particularly […]
November 13, 2009
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Tags: Bing, Google, search · Posted in: Web
Google starts showing anchor links on pages
Sometimes long pages need additional navigation and anchors get introduced. Google recently started pulling your table of contents to the search results. As announced in the Official Google blog: As you can see, the start of the Wikipedia article’s table of contents has been pulled in as the four links above the URI. It’s interesting […]
September 29, 2009
· Jouni Heikniemi · One Comment
Tags: Google, search · Posted in: Web
The anatomy of Bing search results
Microsoft recently published Bing White Paper for Webmasters and Publishers. While offering little in the actual SEO sense, it does provide other interesting viewpoints, especially for usability guys and web site developers. The anatomy of a Google and Bing SERP (Search Engine Result Page) are definitely different. Google’s result on “Helsinki” is reasonably simple: On […]
June 29, 2009
· Jouni Heikniemi · 3 Comments
Tags: Bing, Google, search, usability · Posted in: Web