Category: Bing Search

Microsoft Bing has added a new feature to its search results page before the holiday shopping season named “shopping the look.” It basically will show you outfits of items that go together, and not just clothing items one at a time. This reminds me o…

I am not sure if this is a test or if everyone can see it, but I see a green “secure” label in the Microsoft Bing search results for search results that are over HTTPS. I don’t believe even Google ever tested a secure label in the search results, alth…

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said that BingBot and Adixbot, the Microsoft Merchant Center crawler, share the same crawl budget that is set in Bing Webmaster Tools. He said this one Twitter when asked about it.

I have been watching the Google and Bing Image search results all weekend for the search term [loser]. I mean, this is the type of stuff that would normally be polluted with the political hacks and commentary. But I got to say, Google has not taken t…

Bing announced on the search blog that the Bing Search APIs are moving from Azure Cognitive Services Platform to Azure Marketplace. This is actually going to be a three-year process for those who are actively using the APIs on Azure Cognitive Services…

So it looks like the employees at Microsoft are going to be working from home through July 2021, like Google and many other companies. So I asked if that impacted the Microsoft Bing team and Frederic Dubut of Microsoft said if anything, he and his tea…

Over the past few weeks, I have been seeing some reports that Microsoft Bing is having their own indexing issues. Meaning, Bing is not indexing pages like it use to for its search engine. Some thought it had to do with CloudFlare being blocked, but i…

This is a cute user interface test from Bing, where when you hover your mouse cursor over the title of a search result snippet, it then shows the favicon of the site on the left of that title.

After a couple of months of testing, Microsoft made it official and rebranded Bing to Microsoft Bing. Bing also has this new curved logo it is sporting, which it began testing in April of this year.

Bing said its intelligent questions and answers search feature is now supported in over 100 different languages. It is all powered by Bing’s use of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The folks at Bing posted a blog post showcasing some of the “next waves” of improvements around their deep learning and artificial intelligence techniques that help improve Bing Search. Bing highlighted improvements to autosuggest, people also ask, in…

Bing Search is testing an open links in new tab toggle feature directly at the top of its search results page. Frank Sandtmann shared this with me via email yesterday and I was able to replicate it. But not everyone is seeing it, so it does seem like…

Bing announced it has added the ability to do voice search queries from the Bing desktop interface. The mobile interface had it for a long time, and Google had it on its desktop search since 2016. Heck Microsoft launched its voice search feature in 2…

Bing has this new, I think it is new, streaming carousel, for live video game or other video streams. The Microsoft Bing Developer Twitter account shared information on it saying the “streaming carousels let you easily search through the top live stre…

Over the weekend a lot of people who use Bing saw a new logo and new name for the Bing search engine. Now it says Microsoft Bing instead of just Bing and the logo is the Microsoft logo, not the Bing logo.

Bing can now answer some yes or no questions – which is incredibly cool. Bing announced that it deployed large neural network models that allows it to answer yes or no questions, expand its intelligent answers globally and better understand complex an…

Bing announced it has partnered with GoFundMe to integrate it into Bing Places. This enables businesses that need funding from its community an easy way to highlight that need in Bing Search and Bing Maps.

It looks like Bing is testing a new logo, one with curves. The current logo has sharp edges and corners but the new one gives the whole logo softer edges, more curves and maybe a friendly look.

Bing announced that is now supports SpecialAnnouncement schema. Bing said “Bing may consume case statistics from government health agencies at the country, state or province, administrative area, and city level that use the schema.org markup for disea…

Yesterday we reported that 58% of SEOs would like to see Google stop with the Google algorithm updates during this time. But 42% said Google should continue. Google really has not commented but Bing’s Frederic Dubut said Bing will continue to update …