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I heard an interesting quote from Sergey Brin today during the Google Press conference for their Google Instant search innovation. I included Brin’s quote – “We want to make Google the third half of your brain” in a blog post and  shortly after publishing it searched Google to see how many news sites had picked up the same quote. To my surprise, my blog post along with posts from the Wall Street Journal and CNET was indexed almost simultaneously upon publication. Instant Indexing The same can not be said about my blog posts in Yahoo / Bing search results. Yahoo Indefinite Indexing Yahoo / Bing’s “8″ results came a full hour after posting to my blog, while Google’s 173 results were available at the time of my initial post. If in search size does matter, Bing search still obviously has its work cut out for it.

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Google Instant Indexing

Beginning today, Yahoo search advertisers can export their account data using their “portal” tool. Yahoo Bing Search At least that’s what I think the Microsoft call center rep called it. She could have said export tool. Regardless, prior to today advertisers had to export their Yahoo data by hand into their Microsoft account. Whether the tool is called the portal or export tool – it worked on the first account I tried it on. I fully expect to have to go into all my Microsoft accounts and hand edit any of the items that may have slipped through the cracks. However, there is an upside to the Yahoo Bing Search Alliance – one less search marketing screen to ride.

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Yahoo Bing Search Marketing Alliance Portal Live

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If this isn’t innovative – duplicate search results within Yahoo and Bing -  I don’t know what is! Yahoo Search Results Yahoo Search Bing Search Results Bing Search

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Yahoo and Bing Search Results Now The Same

I wonder if these crawl errors are related to the upcoming Yahoo / Bing Search Alliance search results switch? Yahoo Crawl Errors Have you seen any similar types of errors in Yahoo’s search results?

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Yahoo Crawl Errors

From Microsoft: Bing Is One Bing is one year old – Join the celebration Thanks to the support of Microsoft® adCenter advertisers like you, it’s been an amazing inaugural year for Bing. To celebrate, we invite you to explore some of the milestones we’ve achieved together. •     Bing advertisers are reaching a motivated audience; Bing searchers spend 42 percent more than the average search user in the U.S.—21 percent more than Google users and 25 percent more than Yahoo! users.¹ •     Plus, people who land on sites from organic search results via Bing are 78 percent more likely to click an ad, compared with arriving on the site from Google.² •     Bing advertisers had a lower average cost-per-click than those on Google, and they had more impressions than both Google and Yahoo! advertisers.3

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Bing Is One Year Old