Did you know that Bing Chat also can give you an answer card or box under the chat-based response with citations? We saw Bing provide news cards, local cards, shopping cards, and more but not answer cards. This was spotted by Glenn Gabe and he posted the screenshot below on Twitter but I cannot replicate […]
We all want to see how much traffic the new Bing Chat feature will send us and we know Bing Webmaster Tools will eventually add it. But how about analytics? Well, there are signs Bing Chat is adding some tracking variables for analytics software. This seems to only be available with Bing Chat for the […]
Microsoft Bing is testing placing a site’s favicon on the right side of the search result title’s snippet. We are accustomed to seeing it on the left for Google search results, we even saw Bing testing it on the left on mouse cursor hover overbut here it is being tested on the right. Shameem Adhikarath […]
This week we saw a lot more volatility from the Google Product reviews update, one last weekend and the other around March 1st. I also posted the big Google webmaster report for March 2023. Bing AI chat now lets you set the tone of the responses. Bing Chat also launched version 96, which improves hallucinations […]
Yesterday, Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing announced at PubCon that Bing Webmaster Tools would get two new features. First is the Bing Chat integration, and the second is the index coverage report. The Bing Chat integration, where the Bing Webmaster Tools performance report will allow you to see impressions, click, click-through rates, and more from […]
Microsoft fully launched the quality updates in version 96 of Bing AI Chat on February 28th. It is a tad late, but it is live and reduces cases where Bing refuses to reply and instances of hallucination in answers. Microsoft initially said this quality updates would go live Thursday, February 23rd, but it took a […]
So much to discuss this week in the SEO video recap – just so much. Let’s start with a new confirmed Google update, and the February 2023 Google product reviews system was updated to support more than just the English language. Google updated its help documentation to say the helpful content system update now can […]
Microsoft Bing is testing not showing the citations or links to publishers by default for some results in the Edge Sidebar. So instead of showing the links to the publishers, Bing is showing “click to view,” and when you click it, then Bing will show you those citations or links. This was spotted and covered […]
A major quality improvement should be coming to the new Bing AI Chat feature on Thursday, February 23rd, said Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft (see LinkedIn). Mikhail Parakhin posted this on Twitter this weekend, saying, “Next week is going to be big. Major improvements in the quality of New […]
Microsoft Bing has added a “more” button on some featured snippets in the mobile search interface. When you click on the more button, there is this brief and subtle animation that opens up more details from the site. This was captured by both Vijay Chauhan on Twitter and Keyur Shah on Twitter. Here is one […]