Category: Bing Search

Remember, a couple months ago, Microsoft dropped Duane Forrester as part of their mass layoffs? He was let go from the Bing team and the search community erupted…

Bing is very into their predictions, it has been pretty solid at predicting a lot of outcomes on a lot of events in 2014. So for the end of 2014…

Reuters reported over the weekend that Facebook has dropped their Microsoft Bing partnership to power the web search results within Facebook search.

Facebook has stopped including results from Microsoft Bing search engine on its social networking sit…

Bing announced that you should go to Bing.com because they have a new format for their home page – HD quality images.

Bing has for a long time had beautiful and fluid imagery on a daily basis on their home page…

Just like Google, Bing has finally added a filter to their Bing Image search to filter images by animated GIFs only.

As many of you know, I love animated GIFs, so having two major search engines support an animated GIF filter…

Duane Forrester, the face, the connection, the personality for Bing and the webmaster community has been downsized. This week, Microsoft announced huge layoffs and part of those layoffs included letting Duane Forrester go…

Bing announced they support searching using Emoji characters, which is incredibly useful (sarcasm) but very cool. It reminds me when SEOs were using Emoji characters to try to boost CTR in the mobile search results…

Bing announced several updates to their Cortana engine (i.e. Microsoft’s answer to Apple Siri and Google Now).

The updates include evening data, location aware cards for concerts in your area and apps based on your location…

In late August, Bing announced the Bing Image Widget Tool and then a couple weeks later, Getty Images sued Microsoft over that tool, citing “massive infringement” of copyrighted images.

Then within a couple days, Microsoft pulled the tool, as you ca…

Remember the Bing Image Widget Tool where you can take a query and embed it on your site, and Bing will display images matches the query? Fun tool right…

Spotted today by @rgomezric, Bing is also testing a box/card like search results interface.

@rgomezric spotted a new Bing user interface test, where they moved the navigation bar below the search box.
Bing is testing three different flavors of this test and @rgomezric captured all of them.

Bing has added a new tool to create an “image widget” out of the Bing Image search results.

Bing says that the “Bing Image Widget enhances your web site with the power of Bing Image Search and provides your users with beautiful…

Bing announced they now have conversational search, similar to how to how Google introduced it over a year ago.
I tested it out search for [who is the president of russia?]

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 announced that in the most recent Google Chrome browser update, that when you change your default search provider from Google to Bing…

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…

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…

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…