Search is one game Microsoft just won't give up on, even in the face of stern competition and enormous odds. Constantly adding new features, Bing is all gearing up to take on Google. In a fresh announcement, Microsoft has taken its partnership with Twitter further to include more content from the microblogging site on Bing Search. Starting this week, Bing will include Twitter hashtag and handles searches in its search results.

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Bloggers probably know more about comment spam than anyone else. It is really annoying to write an article about one thing, and see completely off-topic comments, possibly spam ones that make no sense whatsoever. People usually do it in order to increase backlinks to their own websites. But does that work? And how do these spam comments effect your website? In this post, we'll address some of the popular questions regarding this topic, and will look at how you can help reduce comment spam.

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Recently, we looked at how it might be worth your while to optimize your website for Bing and Yahoo as well instead of just focusing on Google. We promised to give you more insights into the Bing search engine to help you get along with it. Today, we'll take a look at how Bing Search selects a title for your post to display in search results. Just like Google, Bing doesn't always serve the title that you want in search results.

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In a recent development, Google's Webmaster trends analyst John Mueller has announced that Google will be removing all author profile pictures from the search results. In addition to this, Google will also remove Google+ view count in a latest bid to free up some real estate on search results. This is true for both mobile and desktop versions of the search engine, and the changes will be slowly rolled out to all users over the next few days.

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Ever felt the need to open up an app associated with a website and look for something in that app while browsing on your smartphone? You might, for instance, need a list of places on a map application, or perhaps look up a recipe. Switching context from webpages over to applications can be annoying, and might not always give you what you wanted. Luckily, Google is here to help - it has finally released the much anticipated app-indexing feature for everyone!

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We all know that when it comes to the search game, no one beats Google. And when you own a game, you're bound to change the rules. Google has made a lot of changes to how we do SEO, and if you think about it, we spend most of our time optimizing for Google. It's all but fair, considering Google owns more than two-thirds of the market. But what about the rest of it? What about Bing and Yahoo that fill up the rest of the space? Is it worth your time to optimize for them as well?

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Backlinks are very important for performing well in search engines. But building them can be one of the most tedious tasks you might have to do as a webmaster. So before you go around looking for new backlinks, maybe it's better to get the most out of your existing ones. This will improve the 'throughout' of your existing backlinks, so to speak. After all, you need all the help you can get. Here are some tips for getting the most out of your existing backlinks.

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