Breaking News: Bub-bye Yahoo!

Well, the official “merge” tween BING and Yahoo is complete for the search engine results…

And Yahoo search is no more….

And the POWERED BY BING tag is now in the yahoo.ca footer too….

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Yahoo/BING Merge Updates: Powered is Up!

For those of you who are following the merge between Yahoo and BING, there is one new development today that is kinda neat-O if you ask me — though its US based at this point only….let me explain….

Here’ s what you can do to test this out yourownself. Go to www.yahoo.com and insert any kind of keyword link….I used “Hamilton web developer” and then click SEARCH. You will most likely see what I see too….shown here below –

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Bing & Yahoo:They’re here!!!

Yes, for those of you who haven’t heard about the “merging” of the Bing search engine and the Yahoo search engine – yup…it’s happening now, eh!

Over the past year or so, after talks and deals being made, it was decided that from about mid-year or so in 2010, that the Yahoo search engine results would be supplied by the Bing search engine. We reported much more fully back in February on this here….

And the time it appears is now!

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Breaking News:”One Bing-er Worth a Googler and a Half!”

Yup, news just in from Chitika Research….every single BING user is worth one and a half Googlers!

What do I mean — or rather — what do they mean by that?

“A new study by online ad network Chitika shows that an individual Bing user is worth one and a half individual Google users in value to website owners.The value of an individual user, in this case, is determined by their likelihood to click on a website’s revenue-generating call-to-action – in Chitika’s case, a text ad embedded in the site.  Across the sample of nearly 15 million impressions used for this study, Google users clicked on ads at a rate of 1.09%, while Bing users clicked on ads 1.67% of the time…”

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