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 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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
Similar to what we reported about with Google a few months ago, with Google testing a map within a search snippet for a specific company. It seems like Microsoft Bing is testing the same thing, well, it depends on how you search for the company. Khushal Bherwani notified me of this on Twitter and I […]
Microsoft Bing is now tucking away its logo, hiding it from searchers, after you conduct a search using your mobile device. Bing will anchor you down to the top of the search box, moving the Microsoft Bing logo out of view, and focusing just on the search results page. Former Microsoft Bing employee, Duane Forrester, […]
With all this talk about how search is going to be more useful and helpful with the new AI features in Bing, very few are talking about ads in that interface. Nicole Farley at Search Engine Land has a screenshot of an ad spotted in the ChatGPT interface within Bing’s new search results. Here is […]