In a blog post published this week by Bing’s Senior Program Manager, Michael Basilyan, we learned how Bing’s algorithms assess content quality when ranking web pages. Bing’s algorithms look at not ...

In the newly updated Bing webmaster guidelines, Bing disclosed how it ranks content in the Bing search results. Well, it doesn't disclose the exact ranking formula, but it does describe that it uses ...

Botify partnered with Bing to participate in its new content submission API pilot that allows brands to directly submit HTML pages to the search engine, reducing the need for crawling and further ...

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg joined Microsoft Wednesday to announce new “social search” features in the Bing search engine. Bing, with the help of Facebook, will now deliver search results that ...

Bing continues to offer its own creative take on Web search, this time bringing social connections into the equation. I've never been a huge fan of browser toolbars: I believe that the browser itself ...

Today Facebook launched Graph Search, a search engine for the people, places, photos, and interests that make up your social graph. But, as Mark Zuckerberg said at the press event today at Facebook HQ ...

The search engine wars are back as Bing goes head-to-head with Google. With Microsoft’s Bing jumping into second place in market share and assuming control of Yahoo’s back-end search, the stage is set ...

Microsoft Bing is testing placing a label in the search result snippets that tell you if the search result snippet you are looking at is a web page or something else. This is a "web" label on the left ...

In our ongoing coverage of Bing’s search ranking factors, which the company listed out when it published its new webmaster guidelines, I asked the search company about its indexing benchmarks: Does ...

The latest Bing update includes a separate search results column that surfaces Facebook friends who can guide their buddies with specific queries. Jay Greene, a CNET senior writer, works from Seattle ...

Both Google and Bing have added many social search features over the past year. There’s also been talk about using “social signals” to help rank regular search results. But are either of the major ...