What will Bing and Yahoo!’s Merge Mean to the Search Game?

First things first: if you currently do no business with Bing and Yahoo! and don’t intend to in the oncoming future – if you use Google for adSense and and have little involvement with Microsoft’s adCenter – then the merge between Bing and Yahoo! will mean very little to you on a personal level. Market shares will fluctuate, and it’s likely that we’ll see Google try a move to outpace the competition, but you can expect for the merge to happen very quietly if you’re not already playing their game.

Bing Down (For the count)?

Interesting. Got home from a long day at work, was trying to do a quick search on Bing (After all, we’d like to think that there is a new competitor for Google to take seriously)… and… and… and… Nothing.

Can’t say I remember Google or Yahoo just being down. Not exactly the type of tech snafu [...]