Category: Bing Search

Bing published some upgrades they made to Bing search the other day. In short, they upgraded their intelligent answers system, their text-to-speech capabilities and their visual search engine.

Bing’s Frédéric Dubut posted on Twitter that his company, Microsoft, is looking to hire a new project manager to work on the “secrets of the Bing ranking algorithm.” Specifically they are hiring a PM to work on the 10 blue links that show up in the Bing search results. He calls them Bing’s crown jewels.

Yesterday at SMX West, I did a panel named Man vs Machine covering algorithms versus guidelines and during the Q&A portion, I asked the Bing reps Frédéric Dubut and Nagu Rangan what percentage of the core ranking algorithm is AI or machine learning based. To my surprise, they guessed over 90%.

Bing’s Frédéric Dubut said on Twitter and in a quote at Search Engine Journal that machine learning helps with scaling generalizing, which is how humans would manually rank search results. So using machine learning to rank search results is a good way to get Bing’s search results to look more human tailored and thus better.

I am not sure if this is new, but Bing posted on Twitter that the Bing app lets you take a selfie, a picture of yourself, and it will find a celebrity that looks like you. I tried it myself and I came up for myself, even though I am not a celebrity.
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Bing has finally added AMP to the news section of the search results. So now, if you site comes up in Bing search news and if it is AMP and if you are in the United States searching, you may see the AMP lightening bolt next to those stories and when y…

Check out some of the new Bing search features around hotel search results, finding costs around home repair and finding good deals online. Bing really dug deep to make these search results useful.

Over a week ago, I reported that Bing Webmaster Tools API was down and then began using some of my channels to find out what is up. All of my channels failed to lead…

Bing is testing a new search results feature where they add an icon as you hover either the search ads or organic results. The icon is an open in new window or new tab icon…

Bing announced this week that they launched new intelligent search features. Here is a quick run down on those features:

Bing wrote about their new Multi-Perspective Answers for their Intelligent Answers set. This is similar to what Google calls “featured snippets,” in case you were wondering.

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Bing announced they added some new search features to their search engine including intelligent answers…

Ryan Hayes posted on Twitter that Microsoft Bing will be crawling the web for PWAs and will then decide to “auto-ingests quality” PWAs into the Windows store. He posted this based on what Microsoft said at the Microsoft Edge Web Summit…

Bing offered their form of direct answers years ago but now I noticed those boxes allow you to actually edit them. Also the answers seem to be coming up more often as a WebmasterWorld thread seems to imply.

Here is one result that has this direct an…

Aaron Bradley, the markup king, posted on Google+ that Bing updated their structured data documentation to now support ClaimReview. ClaimReview annotations should be

Bing quietly announced on Twitter that if you search for [on this day] in Bing you may just get an historical knowledge box showing you important and historical events that happened on this day in the past…

David Iwanow shared with me on Twitter a new feature from Bing that shows a new search result snippet box named “popular content.” It looks like an expanded and more visual version of sitelinks in the search results. The weird part…

Most image search engines, including Google, are very slow to pick up on new images but removing images that go 404, page not found…

Earlier this month, Bing announced a new feature within image search to do visual searches based on selecting portions of an image that comes up in your image search results…

Bing UK now lets you search for nearby hospitals or GPs, general practitioners…