West Kelowna Fires

I find it interesting to watch the media cover different events, especially significant events close to home. While local media outlets cover the breaking news of these West Kelowna Fires very well, as the amount of information piles up some of the key information is lost. It is for this reason I’ve created www.westkelownafires.com in an attempt to keep the pertinent information easily accessible. Simple things like where to go if evacuated are becoming buried on some popular media sites as update after update filter in.

Compete.com reports on Bing

Compete.com recently released it’s June data, and in the email announcement they designate an entire article to Bing. Reading my previous post, without basing my thoughts on any real numbers, I did have a feeling Bing was off to a great start in comparison with Live Search. Microsoft has managed to stir the pot, and Compete.com helps us gauge just how shaken the search industry is.

For starters, Bing managed to drive a 58% increase in traffic to Microsoft Search sites soon after it was announced. That’s quite a feat in itself, but as Compete points out, that’s not the most interesting part. The interesting news is that when looking at Google, Yahoo and AOL, it was Google’s search audience that was most likely to go check Bing out. This might indicate that Google searchers are more likely to consider other search options. Could this be a chink in Google’s armor? Looking at this Compete Graph, it very well may be…