Tag Archives: Bing

Twitter (X) Blocks Bing Search

X, well, Twitter.com, is now blocking Bing Search, specifically Bingbot, from crawling and accessing content posted on Twitter.com, on the X platform. Twitter specifically added to its robots.txt file a directive to disallow Bingbot from crawling the content on its platform. Here is a screenshot of its robots.txt file: This was spotted first, I believe, […]

Microsoft Says It Is Enhancing The Bing Picture Creator Moderation System

Microsoft Bing image creator through the image creator tool or Bing Chat can make images for you using AI. But recently, it has come under fire around its moderation system for those images being a bit too strict and having too many false positives. Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft said on X, “received some reports, looking […]

Bing Search Trending Carousel With Ads

Bing Search may sometimes show a “Trending in Bing” carousel at the top of the search results. That carousel shows alternative search refinements based on your previous query but it also can contain ads. Here is an example of it showing an ad card embedded in the other search refinements in the “Trending on Bing” […]

Bing Search Testing Video Chapters Key Moments

Bing Search is testing showing video chapters for video search results. This is similar to the Google Search key moments feature that has been out for a while. Here is a screenshot of this from Khushal Bherwani who posted this on X: I personally do not see this feature but it makes sense, it is […]

Bing Testing Number Of Visits On Search Ads Per Month

Bing seems to be testing showing the number of people who visited a website listed in a search ad. The ad in the Bing Search results says X “visitors in the past month.” Here is a screenshot that Khushal Bherwani posted on X of this feature: Google has shown in search results if you visited […]

Bing DALL-E 3 Went Stay On The Weekend However It Was Painfully Slow

Microsoft launched DALL-E 3 in Bing Chat late on Friday night and went it went live, it just stalled. It took a really long time for Bing Chat to create images using DALL-E 3 after it went live. Microsoft’s Mikhail Parakhin announced the launch on X on Friday afternoon, saying, “Rolling out DALL-E 3 in […]

Bing Chat Historical past For Personalised Solutions Might Not Work On Chrome Or Firefox

Last week, we reported about the new Bing Chat personalized answers feature that uses your chat history to give you a more tailored answer to your queries. But that might only work in Edge, Microsoft’s browser. When I tested this feature, I couldn’t trigger it, so I assumed it was still rolling out. But it […]

Google September Helpful Content material Replace Carried out, SGE Updates, Hyperlinks Not A Prime Rating Issue, Bing Hiding Ads & Google’s twenty fifth Birthday

This week in search, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update, which seemed to target SEO-first, search engine-first content in a big way. Google won’t be rolling back that update, if you were wondering. Google SGE got an update, too, with new, improved responses, safer responses, and also the “about this result” […]

Microsoft Advertising To Add Copilot To Create Ads & New Compare & Decide Bing Chat Ads

At the Microsoft AI event last Thursday, Microsoft also announced new AI-based ad features in the upcoming months. This includes Copilot, which will help you create ads in Microsoft Advertising, and a new ad format exclusive to the Bing Chat interface named compare and decide ads. As a reminder, Kya Sainsbury-Carter, the Corporate Vice President […]

Microsoft Says Bing Chat Clicks On Adverts 1.8X Greater

At the Microsoft AI event on last Thursday, I had a sit down with Kya Sainsbury-Carter, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Advertising, who told me that clicks on ads within Bing Chat are higher than clicks on ads in traditional search. 1.8X higher to be exact and with shopping ads, specifically in Bing Chat, […]