Microsoft's Bing Starts With A Bang - Online Sportsbook BetUS.com Offers Odds On Search Engine Race

It's a classic sports story: the overpaid, underachieving team drafts a promising rookie and suddenly they start to look like a real threat to the long-time contenders. Software dynasty Microsoft has unveiled its promising rookie search engine. It's named "Bing", and it's touted as being more accurate and user-friendly than current opposition. Although Bing is still barely out of training camp, many search experts are speculating that it might just be enough to bring Microsoft out of third place in the US search standings- ahead of Yahoo, but still behind Google. Never one to miss out on competitive action, BetUS Online Sportsbook is announcing that they will be taking bets on the search engine race. Odds are available on a variety of search-related props. Will Microsoft Bing be in 2nd place for market share by the end of 2009? Will Google acquire Yahoo? Which of the big three will be the first out of the gate with a real answer to Twitter’s popular real-time search? Sports betting fans and search enthusiasts can place their bets on any of these and more. Here are the odds as of June 11th 2009:

Will Bing surpass Yahoo for 2nd overall in the US search market on December 31st?
Bing 2nd on December 31st 6/5
Yahoo 2nd on December 31st 5/9

Will Yahoo be bought by December 31st 2009?
Microsoft 3/2
Google 3/1
Neither 1/3

First to offer real-time search?
Google 1/4
Yahoo! 9/2
Bing 3/2

Will Bing rank 1st in Google's search results for "search engine"?
Yes 10/1

Those looking for the inside scoop on how to read the betting odds, where to wager, and where to get the latest search engine stats should have a look at the Bing vs Yahoo article in the BetUS Locker Room. Let the search engine games...click to read more

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JumboKeyword.com Free Google Adwords App Improves Google AdWords

Google AdWords expert Michael Wong has launched JUMBO Keyword, a brand new web-based application offering 70+ 1-click Google AdWords, keyword & text editing functions to help Google AdWords advertisers create, edit and manage hundreds, even thousands, of keywords with a click of a button. Since 2002 Michael has used Google AdWords to drive over two million leads to dozens of internet marketing clients. To help him create keywords for his AdWords campaigns, Michael developed AdWords Wrapper, a free web application that converts keywords into the keyword matching format AdWords uses. "AdWords Wrapper helped but I would still spend hours creating and editing big keyword lists in a text editor. So I decided to add expand AdWords Wrapper with dozens of keyword editing functions that I use everyday," said Michael Wong, JUMBO Keyword producer. "The result is JUMBO Keyword .com, a web application offering 70+, 1-click Google AdWords keyword editing functions." I want to make JUMBO Keyword accessible to as many people as possible so anyone from anywhere in the world may use without even having to sign up for an account."

JUMBO Keyword offers the following features:

• 70+ 1-click AdWords, keyword, find & replace, and text functions in one user interface
• Edit hundreds, even thousands, of keywords in seconds
• Web-based application - no download or installation required
• 100% free - no sign up or credit card required

Michael Wong launched his first website in England, in 1998, and sold it 18 months later to iBoost Technology, Inc., a L.A. based start-up backed by Softbank which also invested in Yahoo! & ETrade. Since 2002, Michael has specialized...click to read more

Freshare.net Launches Ozark Citizen Journalism Search Engine

URL: http://www.Freshare.net
Freshare.net, which launched earlier this year, blends citizen journalism with professional resources to provide stories of importance to the Ozarks. Freshare is excited to announce an exclusive, customized search engine powered by Google that narrows the search process to the very best bloggers and citizen journalists across the Ozarks. Visitors can find entries from local bloggers directly from the freshare website instead of having to continually narrow their search criteria on other sites. Citizen journalism is the cornerstone of the site and visitors can add their own news items, events, and opinions along with the ability to upload photographs, video news and podcasts. Freshare is updated throughout the week and is filled with stories that are relevant to the area, whether it's local news items or national events that have an impact on the region. Three times each week, the top submissions are selected to become one of the ten featured stories on our front page. Other news is submitted by the publisher, the editor and freshare staff members along with video feeds from top news agencies like Reuters, the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and CBS News

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