‘Powered By Bing’ Shows Up On Yahoo Search Pages — In Size 8 Font
Microsoft’s Bing search engine isn’t getting much branding play on the “powered by Bing” Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search result pages, which are making their debut this week. Do a search on Yahoo, and you’ll need a magnifying glass to figure out that the results are actually coming from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). The transition is ongoing, but for some Yahoo searches the words “powered by Bing” are now showing up at the bottom of the results page in what appears to be size 8 font (via Marketing Pilgrim).
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had said when the search partnership was announced more than a year ago that the Bing logo would not appear on Yahoo search results pages and that Yahoo’s ties to Bing would instead be called attention to via some text. Seeing the result in action, however, is still striking, especially when compared to how some other similar deals have played out. AOL (NYSE: AOL), for instance, prominently includes the words “enhanced by Google” below the search box on its home page.
Yahoo, which had started testing bringing Bing’s search results to its search pages last month, said Tuesday that it would be “transitioning the back-end technology” for Yahoo Search in the U.S. and Canada to Microsoft this week. For now, only select searches are bringing up the text “powered by Bing.”
Next up is the transition of Yahoo search ad accounts to Microsoft’s adCenter. Yahoo says it’s in the process of testing that with a “limited number of accounts.”
Hey, at least it’s not in Comic Sans…
Its pretty large in chrome. The css shows this: pbb{color:#000;font-size:150%;}
Search is Yahoo!’s big revenue earner, but the growth lies within display advertising. Most speculate display ad growth to reach 7% each year, and you can bet Y! will be a big beneficiary if that plays out. Yahoo! has too big of a reach online to discount as a major player in any shifts in online advertising, regardless of the bearish public sentiment on the company. When the economy turns around and advertising spending ramps up, Y! will see decent top line growth accompy its already growing profits thanks to Bartz wave of cost-cutting.
I was searching for an answer to my “Bing problem” when I came across this page. When I try to open an email in AOL Mail, I get the search engine for Bing. Nothing in my message, just that. Old mail, saved mail, sent mail…it all comes out the same. What the heck?