What Does the New Yahoo Results Powered by Bing Mean for Website Owners, SEO, and Online Search?
Recently as many of you have heard from Shashi Seth, Senior Vice President of Yahoo!, Bing is now powering Yahoo’s search results in USA and Canada. This is changing the online search business game in big ways. Bing is formerly MSN and the new brand of Microsoft’s search that previously had about 5% market share in the search engine field. Now Yahoo at about twenty percent share is including Bing results to be at about 25% share give or take in search. This search alliance will allow the two companies to better take on Google, who because of their advanced search algorithms hold in the upper 60 to 70 percent of search engine market share. If any webmaster or website owner had any penalties in Yahoo they are not carrying over the Bing results. This is really important to know for SEO so that you don’t have to worry about search penalties crossing over. Search engine penalties are extremely bad for website owners and are avoided at all costs. They range in severity and length and a websi
