Category: Bing Search

Microsoft announced on the Bing blog that they have integrated the Bing Knowledge Widgets directly into Bing Webmaster Tools. In addition…

Bing announced they are going to get faster, twice as fast to be exact…

Today is Bing’s fifth birthday and as you can see, we dressed up our site to celebrate the big day. Five years old…

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…

Duane Forrester from Bing announced on the Bing Webmaster Blog that they are closing down the Bing Webmaster Forums in the upcoming days.

Honestly…

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…

Bing is testing a new search results design – the design makes for a fresher and cleaner feel…

Yesterday, Microsoft announced their answer to Apple Siri and Google Now – Cortana.
Cortana is a virtual assistant for your Windows devices…

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…

Did you know Bing is better at Google when it comes to tracking some FedEx packages…

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 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…

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…

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…

If you missed all the industry excitement yesterday, Microsoft launched a scroogled store on the Microsoft site.

You can buy mugs, hats, hoodies and t-shirts with marketing slogans from Microsoft’s anti-Google campaign – Scroogled…

Bing announced they have “streamlined” the MSDN API Search.

This means it will be faster and more efficient for developers to build software around the API.

The API docs are over here and the specific changes include these examples:

Find the .Net ve…

Now you can verify your Bing profile using Klout. Bing said, “to help people manage their presence online…