Computer Tips From A Computer Guy

Posted: 04 Oct 2009 03:21 AM PDT

Bing is Microsoft's premier search engine as a replacement for Live Search. We have introduced it Microsoft Bing earlier, but this time we will look at how web content providers and SEOs could get statistical information from Bing.

Bing's xRank, http://www.bing.com/xrank, lets users search for celebrities, musicians, politicians and bloggers, read short biographies and news about them, and track their trends or popularity rankings. With this you can gauge which people are most popular – a great tool for finding celebrity movers and shakers on the Net.

For example, if you have been drumming up hype for a certain celebrity – you would know how effective your SEO work is by looking at the chart provided on the page. In the example below we saw that the rank significantly changed from previous dates.

The site also attempts to be a one-stop shop provider – it contains the bibliography, videos, images and albums. The albums link directs to the music.msn.com site where visitors could buy the album's songs.

There is also a list containing the top ranked celebrities – with stock-like arrows that designate the ascend/descend of each celebrity over time.

If you like to blog about celebrities like actors, musicians and politicians – this tool is a good place to search for the most popular individuals. For SEOs, the hype trends and line charts are helpful devices to gauge an individual's popularity over time.