Posts Tagged ‘homepages’

Ask.com Goes Down on Earth Day, Then Mimics Bing

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Ask.com went down this morning for at least an hour with what appears to be a server DNS Failure.

Ask.com DNS Failure

Ask.com DNS Failure

Maybe Ask decided to observe Earth Day by shutting down their website for an hour to save energy. I wonder how many searches were lost saved as a result? :)

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Bing’s Search Share Grows due to Wetlands near Anchorage, Alaska

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Bing.com

In case you have not yet heard, Bing’s Search Share Grew in February and their Market Share was up for the Third Straight Month in a row. The 4% to 6% month over month growth in search traffic is pulling Bing an estimated search share of somewhere between 9% and 12% of all total monthly US searches.

There are many debatable reasons why Bing is growing, but to me the reason is clear:
The Wetlands near Anchorage, Alaska

Yea, that’s right. I said the Wetlands.

In Alaska.

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Slideshows: Search Engines Honor 2010 Winter Olympics

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Bing Winter Olympics Homepage - February 25th 2010

Bing Winter Olympics Homepage - February 25th 2010

The 2010 Winter Olympics are over. I know, I’m kind of bummed too.

I really didn’t think these Olympic games would draw me in… but they did. And Wow, what a finale!

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Bing is getting back to business as usual. Maybe…

Monday, March 1st, 2010
Back to business as usual at Bing?

Back to business as usual at Bing?

After 2+ weeks of continuous search, social and web media coverage, the 2010 Winter Olympics have finally come to a close. It now time to put our individual Olympic dreams on ice for another 4 years and get back to business as usual.

 
That’s exactly what Bing is doing. Well, sort of…

Business as usual for Bing after the 2010 Winter Olympics coverage.

Oops, not quite business as usual for Bing after the 2010 Winter Olympics coverage.

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