In a surprise announcement, Duane Forrester, a Senior Product Manager at Bing, and the face of Bing’s Webmaster Tools, announced he has been laid off from Microsoft in the company’s latest round of layoffs announced this week. This is a huge loss to both the webmaster community and Bing, as Duane was the most visible […]
Why Duane Forrester is a Fabulous Search Personality of the Year
As one of the judges for this year’s US Search Awards, I knew who the winner of the Search Personality of the Year would be – Duane Forrester of Bing Webmaster Tools. And what made this choice even better? Sitting close to Duane Forrester as Marty Weintraub – last year’s winner – described the winner […]
Bing Index Quality Team Plans Increased Webmaster Communications
In a brave move, Igor Rondel from the Bing Index Quality team has a new blog post where they admit they need to do a better job at communicating with webmasters. Now, they aim to make this change with more frequent announcements from their team about changing and insights, in addition to what webmasters hear […]