A month ago we saw Bing Chat testing visual search. Well, now it is available for all who want to snap a photo or upload an image to Bing Chat. Bing announced“Visual Search in Chat lets anyone upload images and search the web for related content. Take a picture, or use one you find elsewhere, […]
Fabrice Canel is someone most of you who watch my videos already know, he has been with Microsoft for 26 years and is now the Principal Program Manager at Bing. He has been working on search since the very early days of MSN search, but even before that in 2001, he worked on internal search […]
Microsoft Bing has this feature where you can see “people also ask” like results under search result snippets, I am not sure what Microsoft calls them, but they provide additional questions and answers related to the site and query. Well, Microsoft Bing seems to be testing new designs for it. Or maybe these are broken, […]
Bing is now testing showing branded side labels next to each search result listing. We saw earlier more basic side labels and before that branded side bars for some search queries. I am also seeing favicons on the side of the snippets. Bing is always very busy testing these things. This was spotted by Frank […]
This morning, we are seeing significant movement with the Google search results ranking and algorithm. Twitter blocked unregistered users from seeing tweets, which blocked Googlebot and resulted in huge drops in Google Search traffic but a few days later, Twitter fixed it. Bing Chat improved its efficiency and dropped latency by 25%. OpenAI disabled the […]
Bing Chat will be adding a feature to tell it not to search the web for an answer. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search at Microsoft, said on Twitter“#nosearch is coming” when asked if Bing Chat can exclude web search results from the answers. So in the future, you should be able to tell […]
Bing announced a number of new features it says are powered by AI in both Bing, Bing Chat, and the Edge sidebar. The features include AI-generated buying guides, AI-generated review summaries, and new price match monitors. Let’s go through each, most of which should be live for many of you. Buying Guides Bing uses AI […]
This week in search, we had yet another week of heated Google search ranking volatility without a confirmed Google search ranking update. Google said it would drop the Ping endpoints for Google Sitemaps later this year. Some are seeing the new index coverage report in Bing Webmaster Tools. Google said word count is not an […]
Bing Chat is now rolling out a feature to infer the market’s probability of future stock prices. Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft Bing said this feature is starting to roll out and “this is not done by any free consumer tool yet, I think,” he added. Mikhail said this on Twitter“A new feature we’re starting to […]
It seems Microsoft would love to have the Bing app on Apple CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto. Technically, it does not seem to be an issue with Microsoft Bing making the app work on CarPlay or Android Auto. It might be an issue with Google and Apple approving the app to work in cars. Mikhail […]