Now that Yahoo & Microsoft have signed a ten year deal, we’ll see Bing replace their own search engine shortly. Yahoo will focus on media and MSFT will focus on search. What does this mean for the search landscape? Will Yahoo & MSFT do more deals together or is this it? Now that MSFT has their teeth into YHOO will they eventually be able to purchase them or do they even want to anymore. Lets take a look at their deal…
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Microsoft’s new search engine Bing has a webmaster center to help with search engine optimization. Submitting your XML sitemap is very easy. All you need to do is go to a simple URL like this:

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=www.YOURWEBSITE.com/sitemap.xml

and your sitemap will be automatically submitted to Bing’s crawler. You can also use a more traditional form page:

To request that Bing crawl your site, submit your site’s domain to http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx.

if you don’t have an XML sitemap.

Also check out Bing’s SEO 101 guide.
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For the past few days I have noticed a few friend recommendations in Facebook that seemed odd. My Facebook network is only connected to relatives and folks I went to school with. So to see a few folks that I had no mutual friends on Facebook was puzzling to me.

I scanned through a few recommendations tonight and noticed a pattern of the “non-relatives” they were all connections on LinkedIn! So basically Facebook found me over on LinkedIn and then started recommending some of my business contacts to me as friends.

From a Social Networking perspective this is very interesting. Facebook of course wants to expand beyond “just friends” and move into LinkedIn’s business contact space. This is interesting as it will be a much harder job for LinkedIn to move into Facebook’s social space.
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