Bing is attacking Google over its shift to a pay-for-play shopping search engine through a new "Scroogled" site, pledging that Bing has "honest search." Great campaign, if it were true. It's not. Bing does the same things it accuses Google of. It's also another indictment of how little the FTC is doing to protect consumers from "search results" they might not realize are ads....
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Bing Testing Social Sidebar With New Look, More Answers
November 26, 2012
From Search Engine Land
It's been about six months since Bing unveiled its social sidebar, and the search engine is now testing a new format that drops the gray background and shows more matching content from friends and social networks.
Google Launches ‘Disavow Links’ Tool
October 17, 2012
From Search Engine Land
Google has launched a new and widely anticipated "disavow links" tool. The tool was announced by Matt Cutts, the head of Google's web spam team, when speaking during a keynote at the Pubcon conference yesterday. The tool is live. It has been beta tested by selected search engine optimization experts for the past few weeks. About 45 minutes after Cutts spoke, Google formally announced the tool on its Webmaster Central blog. Bing launched its own disavow links tool earlier this year.