Tag Archives: Microsoft

Microsoft Bing Clear Toggle Possibility For Some Photographs

Microsoft Bing Search sometimes will show a button to see what images look like with transparent backgrounds. It shows up for searches for some company logos, where it says “see which images have transparent backgrounds.” This can come in handy, especially when I want to drop logos on images, like the one above. Finding a […]

Microsoft Drops Twitter from its Social Media Administration Platform

Another blow for Twitter’s ad business, with Microsoft announcing that it will be removing Twitter from its Digital Marketing Center management elementstarting next week. As first reported by MashableMicrosoft is removing Twitter as an option from its digital management platform, which provides a cohesive way for businesses to manage their social media presence. Microsoft’s Digital […]

Microsoft Bing Official Site Label

Microsoft Bing is testing adding an “official site” label in the search results. If you search for a specific site, you may find that Bing adds to the title of the search result snippet the words “Official Site.” This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath and posted on Twitterbut I cannot replicate it myself: I don’t […]

Microsoft Advertising Testing Third-party Authorities Providers Adverts

Microsoft announced it would be testing the ability of third parties who are delegated or authorized providers to advertise for certain government services with review and pre-approval. This is for US-based advertisers with the Microsoft Advertising Search Network and Microsoft Audience Network. It is supported for these approved government services: Recreational passes/licenses including but not […]

Microsoft Fills Information Hole In Bing Webmaster Tools API

Microsoft has fixed the missing data in the Bing Webmaster Tools API. As a reminder, there was a bug that caused the Bing Webmaster Tools API to stop working, then Microsoft fixed it but about a weeks of data was missing. Now, Microsoft has filled the data gap with the missing data. Fabrice Canel from […]

Microsoft Bing’s CEO Says Google Bard Is Fairly Far Behind Bing Chat

Mikhail Parakhin, the current CEO of Bing at Microsoft and former CTO at Yandex said that Google bard is “pretty far behind” compared to Bing Chat. “We learned to never underestimate Google,” he added. Mikhail Parakhin wrote on Twitter when asked about his impressions of the Bard launch, and like many, he is a bit […]

Microsoft Bing Chat With Bing Image Creator

Microsoft has announced that Bing Chat in “creative” mode can now create images based on you inputting a description of what you want it to create or referencing another image. Jordi Ribas from Microsoft said on Twitter“now you can create an image by simply using your own words to describe the picture you want to […]

A Beginner’s Information to Microsoft (Bing) Ads in 2023

Remember Bing Ads? Well, they go by Microsoft Ads now and they definitely shouldn’t be an afterthought. While Google remains king of search with the vast majority of the market share (it’s become a verb, after all), Microsoft Ads are in second place. Savvy digital marketers can (and should) learn how to leverage the power […]

Microsoft Bing Makes use of New GPT-4 From OpenAI

Microsoft Bing confirmed minutes after OpenAI announced the new version of GPT, GPT-4, that Bing uses that upgraded model. Yusuf Mehdi from Microsoft said“We are happy to confirm that the new Bing is running on GPT-4, customized for search.” In fact, Microsoft’s Bing Chat has been using GPT-4 for the past five weeks. “If you’ve […]

Microsoft Bing Exams Web site Favicon On Proper Of Search Consequence Snippet

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 […]