Tag Archives: microsoft

Search Engine Market Share for May 2011

Every month I watch the search engine market share amongst those web properties (mainly the search engines, Google, Yahoo, Bing.com) to see where all the searches are. comScore reports the search engine market share every month, which is interesting to watch. Google is still ahead with 65 percent of the search engine market share and [...]

Microsoft Moves Synsup Labs Domain Names

In April 2011 I first reported that Microsoft had acquired 47 domain names related to something (a brand or a company) named Synsup Labs. Those domain names had previously been pointed to the Bing.com search results. Now, the total number of domain names related to Synsup Labs that Microsoft owns is an even 50 domain [...]

Microsoft Buys Bing Search Engine Optimization Domains

Perhaps in a move to protect their Bing.com brand, Microsoft has recently purchased eight search engine optimization for Bing domain names. What I find interesting, though, is the fact that they targeted .org, .info, and .net domains, and not the .com versions of them. Ideally Microsoft should own all of them, even the .com domains [...]

Microsoft Acquires 47 SynsupLabs Domain Names

In an interesting acquisition today by Microsoft, the company acquired 47 domain names and has pointed them to the Bing.com search engine. I usually watch the list of Microsoft domain names and have not seen such a large acquisition of new domain names in a long time. Perhaps this is the indication of a new [...]

5 Internet Predictions for the Future

On the Standing Dog Blog, Josh has some interesting internet predictions for the future. He talks about his predictions for Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, the iPhone, and even Microsoft and Apple.