Long time friend and well respected CMO buddy of mine Romi Mahajan is leaving Microsoft to join Metavana. A: After an aggregate of 9 years at Microsoft, being the CMO of a $100M dollar digital agency, and a writer, I wanted to get back to my roots in terms of “building” something that had huge customer promise and could make a dent in reality as we know it. My new role as CMO of Metavana, a soon to be launched social-sentiment engine, has all the elements of my dream job – People, Impact, Autonomy and direct correlation to both the Consumer and Enterprise spaces. MORE >>

We all use search engines every day. All these search engines offer a valuable resource to dig through the endless supply of information strewn across the web and bring us what we are searching for. But how did search engines start? Here are some cool facts that you may never have known about search engines: The Users. These users have definite ways of accessing information: 93% of consumers worldwide use search engines to find and access websites. You may not think that search engines were available in the early 90s, but you would be wrong. Now –. MORE >>

Fast forward several decades and onto the digital battleground between Google and Microsoft for the prize of most coveted search engine. Google is still the safest and most reliable search engine to provide good quality content. The playing field between search engine companies however should now be less competitive and designed to give the marketer more of an advantage with their SEO campaigns. Marketers can now implement a stronger advertising campaign for their clients across a broader spectrum of search engine. These men single handedly changed the world. MORE >>

has dealt with who has left the company rather than who has joined it, the company is expanding its efforts in communities, social and communications, building out a corporate roster below Carol Bartz that features many former Microsoft and MSN alumni, looking to restore the company to its once lofty leadership position on the Web. This hope mirrors a similar challenge experienced by the MSN team during his time there following Microsoft's acquisition of Hotmail at the end of 1997. Paladin Hotmail Yahoo MicrosoftWhile most of the recent personnel news surrounding Yahoo! MORE >>

Tweet Microsoft just launched their social media rival to the established social media platforms Facebook, Google+, Twitter and Pinterest. However, there are some major differences: Users cannot upload their own images but on the other hand share web content found by searching on Bing, Microsoft’s own search engine. Social Media Social Network Bing Microsoft so.cl The network is called So.cl and focuses on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning. combines all four of the above-mentioned networks, but is still very much its own. MORE >>