Bing Takes Malware More Seriously With Bing Site Safety Reporting
Bing announced they are launching a new malware and safety tool within the search results to better warn and communicate to both searchers and webmasters about safety issues with the listings…
Bing Now Works Within Google’s Chrome New Tab Page
Bing announced that in the most recent Google Chrome browser update, that when you change your default search provider from Google to Bing…
Submit Your Right To Be Forgotten Requests With Bing Now
Earlier this week we reported that Microsoft was taking their time working up a solution for Bing to handle the right to be forgotten strategy. Well, yesterday…
Bing Still Working On Right To Be Forgotten Removal Process
As you know, the EU has mandated the search engines to remove content that might be harmful to people on a case by case basis. Google launched a form for this removal and began removing this content. They even started an advisory council to help them w…
Bing Knowledge Widget & Webmaster Tools
Microsoft announced on the Bing blog that they have integrated the Bing Knowledge Widgets directly into Bing Webmaster Tools. In addition…
Bing Catapult Is Like Google’s Caffeine Update
Bing announced they are going to get faster, twice as fast to be exact…
Bing Is Five Years Old
Today is Bing’s fifth birthday and as you can see, we dressed up our site to celebrate the big day. Five years old…
Apple Sticks It To Google By Adding Bing In Spotlight Search
Yesterday at the Apple WWDC event, which you can watch over here if you missed it, Apple showcased the new Spotlight feature in their preview of OSX…
Bing: Webmaster Forums Closing Down, Go To WebmasterWorld Instead
Duane Forrester from Bing announced on the Bing Webmaster Blog that they are closing down the Bing Webmaster Forums in the upcoming days.
Honestly…
The IRS Penalizes Bing?
Carl Malamud, a well respected technologist, author, and public domain advocate posted on Twitter that Bing’s spider “got a timeout” by not playing nice with the IRS database. It seems that BingBot…
Test: Bing’s New Search Results Design
Bing is testing a new search results design – the design makes for a fresher and cleaner feel…
Bing Cortana: Microsoft’s Answer For Apple Siri & Google Now
Yesterday, Microsoft announced their answer to Apple Siri and Google Now – Cortana.
Cortana is a virtual assistant for your Windows devices…
Bing Snapshots Adds Doctors, Lawyers, Dentists and Real Estate Properties
Bing has added over a 150 million new entities to their snapshot/satori engine this past week.
This incorporates adding entity data around doctors, lawyers, dentists…
Drive PPC Revenues By Addressing The Bing Dilemma
In February, comScore released their monthly analysis of the US search marketplace, reporting Google with a 67.6% share of the search market and Bing, which powers Yahoo! search, a 28.7% share. Though these findings continue to confirm Google’s dominance in the search landscape, it’s important to…
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Bing Better Than Google At Tracking 12 Digit Fedex Tracking Numbers
Did you know Bing is better at Google when it comes to tracking some FedEx packages…
For Robocop, Bing Imagines The Future Of Search In 2028
What will search look like in 2028? That’s a question that the folks at Bing were tasked with answering for the new movie, Robocop. (Well, “new” as in a remake of the 1987 original that just hit theaters this week.) In a blog post this week, the Bing search folks shared a few…
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Microsoft’s New CEO Is A Search Guy, Satya Nadella
Yesterday, Microsoft named Satya Nadella their new CEO. Yes, he is a familiar name for many of you because he has been involved in search at Microsoft for years.
He keynoted at one of the first, if not the first…
Bing Rewards Adds iOS & Android Support, Windows Coming Later
Bing announced they are bringing their Bing Rewards program to mobile devices. Well, not all mobile devices, just iOS and Android for now. Some what ironically, Windows devices are currently not supported…
Bing For Schools, Finally?
Matt Wallaert, a Behavioral Scientist at Microsoft but more well known for creating Bing For Schools posted on Twitter something strange. He wrote, “Finally, Bing for Schools. No ads, the way it should be in schools…
Bing Adds SSL Support But Promises To Keep SEO/SEM Community “Top Of Mind”
First spotted via Hacker News, Bing now has enabled searchers to go to https://www.bing.com and search over Bing SSL search.
I covered this at Search Engine Land where I said early tests show that when on SSL search…