Facebook Making Bing Happen?

Wikimotive Make Bing Happen

Currently, the biggest problem with using Bing for SEM and  Business SEO is the lack of search volume. Sure, they came in with roughly 20 percent of the total U.S. searches by the end of last year (depending on whose stats you read), but Google is still dominating them, essentially getting the rest of the market share (ignoring the relative pittance of Yahoo, AOL, and ASK.com). Optimizing for Bing hasn’t been on the top of many to do lists, it has simply made more sense to optimize for Google and then (maybe) perform a few small tweaks to appease Bing. That could all be changing though.

We wrote about how the Graph Search partnership of Facebook and Bing would be a boon to the search engine, but now there is speculation that it could be more important than previously thought. Here is a quote from Derrick Connell, Corporate Vice President of Search for Bing.

“Now when you do a web search on Facebook, the new search results page features a two-column layout with Bing-powered web results appearing on the left-hand side overlaid with social information from Facebook including how many people like a given result. On the right hand side, you will see content from Facebook Pages and apps that are related to your search.”

Mr. Connell also included a picture of what he’s talking about. Notice anything interesting?

Wikimotive Facebook Bing

 

What should leap out is the presence of the sponsored ad. If that part of the page is dedicated to Bing results as Connell says, that means that any ads you pay to sponsor on Bing may also be available on Facebook. Essentially, not only would Bing have their own search market share, they would have a portion of whatever market share Facebook ends up grabbing. Given Facebook’s large user-base and history of success, that share could end up being very large indeed.

The combination of the information from both Bing and Facebook would essentially be the best of both worlds, traditional search and social cues. This is something Google has been trying to do in-house with Google+, but so far they’ve been failing. If Bing and Facebook pull it off in an organic way, then the sky is the limit.

It’s all still speculative at this point, but it looks very promising for Bing moving forward. It all boils down to the fact that if Facebook’s Graph Search catches on, it could mean a major market share swing away from Google dominance.

About Tim Martell

Timothy Martell is a digital marketing and SEO expert regularly sought out by both media and industry leaders for his opinion on social media marketing campaigns that really work. Timothy has been seen on MSNBC and Dateline, has been interviewed twice by Facebook for his successful dealership advertising campaigns, has been a featured speaker at automotive conferences such as, DMSC, AMBC, and the Driving Sales Executive Summit and has been featured on the cover of AutoSuccess magazine. Timothy is known for pushing the boundaries of conventional automotive thinking and producing social media campaigns that generate massive numbers of followers leading to record ROI.

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