Bing Search has a new carousel for “top rated tutors” for keyword searches such as [piano], [makeup], [guitar] and so on. This brings up a special search carousel that pulls data from TakeLessons, a Microsoft owned property. Here is a screenshot of the [piano] query for “explore top rated piano tutors.” When you click on […]
Microsoft Bing has updated the interactive Wikipedia box in the search results to scroll based on where you hover your mouse on the left side of the box. We first spotted this Wikipedia box in Bing Search back in March but it seems Microsoft upgraded it a bit to jump you to the section you […]
Fabrice Canel posted An SEO best practices post for sites that use subscription-based and paywall content. While Google called something flexible samplingpreviously a first click free program – Microsoft Bing does not. Bing basically wants you to detect that BingBot is trying to access this subscription-based and paywall content and then give BingBot full access […]
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing announced on the Bing blog that the search company will retire the legacy BingBot user-agent in the Fall of 2022. Instead, Bing will use a user-agent that is more representative of its evergreen BingBot rendering engine. Bing announced the new user agents back in 2019 but I guess this now […]
While Google supports the data-nosnippet HTML attributeMicrosoft Bing does not, clarified Fabrice Canel of Microsoft on Twitter. The data-nosnippet attribute lets you designate textual parts of an HTML page not to be used as a snippet in the search results in Google, but it does not work for Bing. Fabrice Canel said “We do not […]
Microsoft has been busy testing variations of explore features in Bing Search. Here is one showing a side bar menu that expands and when clicked on, takes you into Bing Image Search. The GIF below is from Khushal Bherwani who posted this on Twitter: You can see the side bar menu expands out, and then […]
Microsoft Bing seems to be testing a new search feature that embeds snippets of content from Wikipedia in this large Wikipedia box in the search results. It basically brings in portions of content from Wikipedia broken down by the Wikipedia’s page content. Here is a GIF of it in action – it should work for […]
Microsoft Bing is testing a feature in its search results page to anchor you to different sections of the search results. Microsoft calls this “On This Page” and when you click on an item on the left side bar, the searcher will be anchored down the search results page to that section. This was spotted […]
Microsoft is testing or rolling out colored background patterns for search ads, shopping search ads and other non-ad elements. Frank Sandtmann, a German based SEO, notified me of this, he saw it in the Bing Image search results but I see them in the main Bing web search results. Here is a GIF of it […]
Here is an interesting test from Microsoft Bing. The search company is testing placing a newspaper emoji and a magnifying glass emoji as the favicon in the title of the search results pages. It’s unusual and I’m not sure why Bing is testing it, but they are. Frank Sandtmann, a German based SEO consultant, sent […]