Microsoft pitches its “Bing It On” challenge across the street from Google I/O.
Source: searchengineland.com
Awkward: Microsoft Rips Facebook, Says Windows Phone Is Real “People First” Device
Microsoft - a Facebook investor and partner - let loose with a blog post today saying it has a “people first” phone for those who want the “real thing.”
Microsoft “Research” Discovers The Obvious In Renewed Anti-Trust Attack On Google
Did you know that the higher a site is listed in search results, the more traffic that site is likely to receive? If you’re a search marketer, or anyone with a dose of common sense, you do. But Microsoft had research conducted to yet again prove this point, in an attempt to influence the ongoing EU antitrust review against Google.
Read more about how this research is more of a not-so-hidden attack against Google here.
Source: searchengineland.com
Microsoft announced a new research project named ViralSearch, which lets you search and navigate cascades of people passing content on social media and distinguish between things that are not just popular but also become viral.
Here is a video from Jake Hofman of Microsoft Research explaining how it works.
Goodbye, Google.
NORAD Tracks Santa has a new “team” page listing corporate sponsors. Microsoft tops the list; Bing Maps is prominent and Google is nowhere to be found.
Source: searchengineland.com
A Plea For An End To Internet Partisanship
Google cofounder Sergey Brin suggested that politicians elected in the US elections should resign from their parties and act as independents. As a citizen of the internet, I couldn’t help but think I’d like to see the same thing happen among our internet rulers, the major internet companies.
So, to rewrite Brin’s request from that perspective:
It is ironic that whenever I have met with people from our major tech companies, they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively, 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other tech companies.So my plea: please run your companies for the collective benefit of users and the internet, in the way you all so often suggest you want to. It is probably the biggest contribution you could make.
Quite seriously, I’ve met completely rational, thoughtful, well-meaning people at Google who nonetheless don’t prevent the company from sometimes acting in fiercely competitive ways toward other companies.
The same is true for other large internet companies, as well. Apple won’t work with Google; Twitter won’t work with Tumblr; Google won’t work with Microsoft; Facebook won’t work with Google.
I no more expect that partisanship will be abandoned in the tech world than I do in the political world. But if it does, perhaps a leader like Brin in the tech world might actually convince some on the political world to change.
Here’s a start. How about an official Google Voice app for Windows Phone? Microsoft is open to that bipartisanship, but to date, Google can’t muster the resources to make that happen, it seems.
Source: marketingland.com
“Daddy can I play with your phone?”
Windows Phone will build in new feature called “Kid’s Corner,” a place where kids can run apps picked for them but in way that still protects your stuff.
