Yusuf Mehdi from Microsoft took to the stage at SES New York today, and announced some exciting news about Bing!
Foursquare is growing quickly! It is becoming a valuable asset for people to share information about places, discover new experiences and meet new people. Bing maps will soon allow you to see local Foursquare check-ins overload on the map location you are currently viewing… Next time you go to an event, a conference or a new place, you don’t need to wonder where the hot bars are, or where everyone else is staying – you will be able to visualise it directly on the Bing map! Exciting stuff! I hope that in future this will also tie in to your social networks, so that you can see where friends of friends check in nearby.
Foursquare is growing quickly! It is becoming a valuable asset for people to share information about places, discover new experiences and meet new people. Bing maps will soon allow you to see local Foursquare check-ins overload on the map location you are currently viewing…
Next time you go to an event, a conference or a new place, you don’t need to wonder where the hot bars are, or where everyone else is staying – you will be able to visualise it directly on the Bing map! Exciting stuff!
I hope that in future this will also tie in to your social networks, so that you can see where friends of friends check in nearby.
Bing are now starting to pilot quick tabs at the top of the page. This is due to the fact that a large number of users refine searches, so by placing the most commonly used quick tabs at the top of the page, more users will be likely to click them. You need to pay attention to the quick tabs displayed for your target keywords if you are not already!
For certain websites, Bing will start to you show the most popular SHARED links from that site (based on Twitter data). I can’t help by wonder how long it will be until how often a link is shared on Twitter and other social networks, becomes a more significant factor than the traditional PageRank measure of how many other pages link to a site. We are not far off! Maybe we are even already there.
For certain websites, Bing will start to you show the most popular SHARED links from that site (based on Twitter data).
I can’t help by wonder how long it will be until how often a link is shared on Twitter and other social networks, becomes a more significant factor than the traditional PageRank measure of how many other pages link to a site. We are not far off! Maybe we are even already there.
Yusuf also provides some of his main focus SEO areas to make sure you rank well in Bing… Make sure you URL is crawled properly Keywords are very important! Make sure you use them in your titles, anchor text and other sections of the page
Yusuf also provides some of his main focus SEO areas to make sure you rank well in Bing…
Yusuf also mentioned that structured data within websites is going to be more and more important. No surprise there, but nice to have the reminder!
Author: Chris Moore is a Program Manager working on Search Engine Optimisation at Microsoft. http://www.twitter.com/chrismdotcom
Gary Flake from Microsoft research delivered a fascinating demo of ‘Microsoft Pivot’, an experimental technology which focuses on browsing collections of content/pages, rather than individual pieces of content. The concept of viewing, filtering and pivoting collections of web pages based on various attributes pulled from the content represents an exciting possible future state for web browsing.
Whilst Microsoft Pivot is available for download, the application is currently limited to a predefined set of data which have been added for demo purposes.
I am very curious to see how this technology evolves, and whether this type of application could be used to create views of custom large data sets, spot patterns and identify actions. I also wonder how long it will be before some of this functionality emerges directly within Bing – exciting times!
This technology illustrates how more significant microformats will become as search engines develop advanced functionality to extract data from web pages, to allow sophisticated browsing of content before users even click through to the destination site.
This is a relatively short TED demo (6 minutes) which I recommend watching…