What Does the Yahoo!/Microsoft Search (Bing) Deal Mean For NPOs and NGOs

If you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft and Yahoo! have inked a 10 year deal to partner on search and advertising.  You can learn more about the details of the deal, which I won’t go into here.  If the deal is approved by regulators, we could see changes in Yahoo and Bing search and advertising early next year, from the sound of it. I am a pretty loyal Googler.  Google hasn’t really failed me yet for search, and I am familiar with it, so I use it — one could say — religiously.  After the launch of Bing, I did some vanity Binging — I “binged” myself, I admit it! And was satisfied to discover that I owned “Gregory Heller” on Bing for basically the first 5 pages.  I Binged a few other things, and then next day went back to using Google.  Bing is responsible for less than 5% (closer to around 2%) of search traffic on many of the sites I track stats for.  Google accounts for 90% or greater of the organic search traffic, so I “go where the people are.”  It is worth noting that these numbers do not jive with Comscore’s latest traffic numbers (from June) that show Google with 65% of search, Yahoo! with 20% and Microsoft with 8%.  So Yahoo! and Microsoft could soon account for a combined 30% of search. But now that Bing will power Yahoo! search, these numbers will increase, and as Bing improves with the access to Yahoo!’s search data, the number of people using Bing will probably increase.  I’ve also noticed an interesting blip in the stats recently,...

Going to Gnomedex This Year

<p>This year, for the first time since I have been in Seattle, I plan to attend <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com/">Gnomedex</a>. Unlike so many other conferences that force you to choose between sessions, adn then sometimes you can't even squeeze into the session you want, Gnomedex is a single track conference. Only one speaker at a time. ANd if you don't want to listen to that speaker, well, there is always the hallway. This years theme is "Human Circuitry". I'm looking forward to it.</p> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://home.gregoryheller.com/sites/gregoryheller.com/files/gnomdex.jpg">gnomdex.jpg</a></td><td>5.6 KB</td> </tr> </tbody>...