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Why We Are Here => Traffic => Topic started by: Adam C on March 22, 2011, 03:28:51 PM

Title: When is Bing rolling out to Yahoo in the UK?
Post by: Adam C on March 22, 2011, 03:28:51 PM
title says it all really.

It was announced that Yahoo would be displaying bing results at some point in Q1 2011, but so far no sign that I've seen.

It was also announced that there would be plenty of advance warning.

So with Q2 about 9 days away, anyone have any ideas?
Title: Re: When is Bing rolling out to Yahoo in the UK?
Post by: thesaintv12 on March 22, 2011, 03:30:58 PM
They had a webinar the other day which talked about how the integration of accounts would work etc.  I can't remember the dates they gave, but I'll look at my notes when I'm back at my office and let you know.
Title: Re: When is Bing rolling out to Yahoo in the UK?
Post by: thesaintv12 on March 22, 2011, 03:34:15 PM
Quote from: thesaintv12 on March 22, 2011, 03:30:58 PM
They had a webinar the other day which talked about how the integration of accounts would work etc.  I can't remember the dates they gave, but I'll look at my notes when I'm back at my office and let you know.

Ah, I have them here on my laptop.  They didn't give a date, just early 2011 until early 2012.  UK is supposed to be the first market.  Sorry, I don't think that told you anymore than you already knew.

Title: Re: When is Bing rolling out to Yahoo in the UK?
Post by: Adam C on March 23, 2011, 09:08:01 AM
thanks

Yep, they're being pretty vague

latest I've read...

http://www.multilingual-search.com/yahoo-and-microsoft-take-search-alliance-global/15/02/2011/
QuoteFor Europe, we anticipate the organic search transitions for the UK, France, Ireland, Germany, Spain and Italy to begin in the first quarter of 2011, with other European markets following in mid-2011. We expect to begin the paid search transition in the UK, France and Ireland in the second quarter of 2011, with other European markets to start in late 2011 and early 2012.

Title: Re: When is Bing rolling out to Yahoo in the UK?
Post by: GerBot on March 28, 2011, 02:48:18 PM
Can't be too far away as all the UK Bing staff are now redundant and serving notice or are just temp contractors.

Latest I've heard is 10% of the traffic is starting in May then slowly rolling out to 100%