Microsoft’s Deep Search, an optional generative AI feature meant to help searchers with complex questions that don’t have simple answers, seems to have rolled out to more users today. I personally can see the “Deep Search” icon at the top right of the Bing search box after conducting a search in Bing. And I asked … Read more
Both Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising revenue were up this past quarter, year over year. Google ad revenue was up 11% and Microsoft Advertising revenue was up 8%. The previous earnings, Google ad revenue was up 9.5% and Microsoft ad revenue was up 10%. Either way, Google’s ad revenue of $65.52 billion trailed analyst estimates … Read more
Bing seems to be testing displaying ads on the left side bar of the Bing Search results. Previously, Bing had organic free listing details on that left side bar but now it seems they are testing showing Microsoft Advertising search ads on that panel. Khushal Bherwani posted an example of this on X, here is … Read more
In March, I published a study on generative AI platforms to see which was the best. Ten months have passed since then, and the landscape continues to evolve. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has added the capability to include plugins. Google’s Bard has been enhanced by Gemini. Anthropic has developed its own solution, Claude. Therefore, I decided to … Read more
Just like Microsoft has been testing swapping out the Bing Chat link with the Copilot link within the Bing Search results pages, now Microsoft is testing swapping out the Bing logo with a Copilot logo. This is all for the rebranding of Bing Chat to Copilot, which started two months ago. This change was spotted … Read more
Microsoft is testing two new changes to the Bing Search interface. One is a bubble style for the search bar menu and the other is using bullets for the sitelinks in the search result snippets. Both of these were spotted by Frank Sandtman and posted on Mastodon. Here is a screenshot: He shared more screenshots … Read more
For the original iTunes version, click here. This week, I reported about a weird ranking pattern that has been emerging with these weekend ranking Google updates. Google Search Console shows a spike in 404 errors for URLs ending in /1000. Google launched Circle to Search and a new AI-powered multisearch. A new German study … Read more
Microsoft will soon bring Copilot Pro, the premium $20 per month version of its AI search features, to the Copilot iOS and Android app. Microsoft’s Mikhail Parakhin said the app updates are being processed within the respective app store submission process. Microsoft did release the Copilot app some time ago but when Microsoft announced Copilot … Read more
It has been just about a year now since Microsoft launched Bing Chat (now known as Copilot) and Bing’s market share has only grown less than 1% according to StatCounter. Most of you may not be surprised, since our poll shared shortly after Bing Chat launched had most of you thinking Bing won’t gain that … Read more
Microsoft is testing a new style for when someone hovers their mouse cursor over a search result snippet in the Bing Search results. Bing will add a shadow effect to that snippet on hover over. This was spotted by Frank Sandtmann who posted about it on Mastodon. Frank wrote, “Bing is testing shadows for titles … Read more
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