the life of a web developer » bing http://gavtaylor.co.uk/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:30:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 where am I?… http://gavtaylor.co.uk/blog/where-am-i http://gavtaylor.co.uk/blog/where-am-i#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:03:05 +0000 Gavin http://gavtaylor.co.uk/blog/?p=320 No Im not lost, I was logged into my Google Web master tools this morning and saw that my number one search query on google that returned my site has changed to ‘Gavin Taylor’. So I decided to see where I am on various searches, then this time next year I can search again and see how I’ve faired.

Screenshot of gavtaylor.co.uk top queries

google.co.uk
search term search type search position
gavin web unknown (page 50+)
gavin uk page 43, position 5
gavin taylor web page 1, position 3
gavin taylor uk page 1, position 2
gav taylor web/uk page 1, position 1
php developer web/uk unknown (page 50+)
php developer manchester web page 3, position 9
php developer manchester uk page 4, position 1

not bad results there really, not much to done on searches for my name, going to focus on php developer I think

bing.com
search term search type search position
gavin web unknown (page 50+)
gavin uk unknown (page 50+)
gavin taylor web page 1, position 3
gavin taylor uk page 1, position 2
gav taylor web page 1, position 4
gav taylor uk page 1, position 2
php developer web/uk unknown (page 50+)
php developer manchester web page 2, position 8
php developer manchester uk page 8, position 9

interestingly on the web search for ‘gav taylor’, my twitter feed came top.
again searches for my name do quite well, confirms I need to improve seo for ‘php developer’

Will be interesting to see where I end up for these searches in Feb 2011

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Microsoft will help Yahoo by providing Bing to power Yahoo! Search and a return in revenue generated through Yahoo’s many portals, in return Yahoo will become the “worldwide exclusive relationship sales force” for both companies helping Microsoft with its online sales and promotion.

Im not sure if this is a good thing or not, on the one hand its a shame to see an internet pioneer hang up its search engine boots in favour of the blood money it will get from Microsoft for embedding bing, but then Yahoo is a network going nowhere but downhill, used only by those that have used it since the early days or those that cant figure out how set a new homepage, missing out on the new generations as they flock to cool uncle google for their search needs, the revenue they will make from Microsoft will probably help the name Yahoo! stay in the headlights that little bit longer.

You can read more on the Yahoo! corporate Blog or the special site set-up to answer your questions.

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