Small Business Mavericks

JULY 25, 2012

Microsoft has announced that starting August 1st they will charge for the use of Bing’s API. There are a lot of free tools and toolbars that use Bing as the primary search engine. For Microsoft, this could be more about the money than it is anything else. Conduit is a very popular toolbar creator that uses Bing.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 30, 2011

For several years now the search engines have been obsessed with ranking web pages based on popularity. Bill Slawski, who writes about search patents on his blog SEO By The Sea, recently wrote about a Microsoft patent that is based on measuring authority.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 2, 2011

Let them earn the right to hire more sales people and be entrepreneurial in their market but with the backing of a Goliath like Microsoft. If Bing, or any search engine, took that approach, it would be revolutionary. Would you respond to a search engine taking this approach? But that likely won’t happen.

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