Microsoft released Copilot Pro, a premium paid version of its Copilot service, formerly known as Bing Chat. But that doesn’t mean Bing Search or Bing Chat is getting worse, Bing will stay the same, said Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft. Mikhail Parakhin said on X, “Bing doesn’t change” with this release. It is just that “Copilot … Read more
Did you know that you can search both Bing and Google (or other search engines) at the same time using the Microsoft Edge browser? Well, you can. Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft pointed this out on X and wrote, “In Edge, you can search in two engines simultaneously: if Bing is your default and you click … Read more
When Microsoft first launched its Bing Chat Personalized Answers, Microsoft said the history/memory would be based on 90 days of chat history. However, some chat users noticed it was going beyond the 90 days. In fact, Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft, said they plan to extend it beyond the … Read more
Bing Search has placed the “Chat” button in its top search menu since Bing Chat launched. But now Bing is testing expanding it to read “Chat w/GPT-4” and “Copilot.” We know Microsoft is ultimately rebranding Bing Chat to Copilot, so that is expected but w/GPT-4 is not. Bing is also showing a tab for “My … Read more
As many of you know, OpenAI’s ChatGPT service has a plugin for Browse With Bing, which basically opens up Bing Search to the popular AI chat feature. But Browse with Bing in ChatGPT “has a different implementation of Search access,” Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft said. Mikhail Parakhin was asked, “So the search itself is fast, … Read more
Microsoft seems to have rolled out a new shape for the favicons in its Bing search results. Instead of being circles, now they seem to be square. Khushal Bherwani spotted Bing testing this earlier, and when I tried this on New Year’s Eve, all my browsers only returned the square design for these search result … Read more
Last week, Microsoft quietly released the Copilot App for Android and iOS. Don’t tell anyone but the Bing App and Copilot App use the same chat feature, the only difference is the Copilot App takes you directly to the chat interface and bypasses search. As a reminder, Bing Chat was rebranded to Copilot. Mikhail Parakhin … Read more
It looks like Bing may be testing a new design for its search knowledge / answer panels in the search results. And that new design looks very much like the new Google knowledge panel Google has for the past year-plus. Here are screenshots from Khushal Bherwani who posted them on X: New Test: Current: Google: … Read more
Microsoft Bing is testing showing a “trending” label in the visually explore box within its search results. This may show up on some visually explore search boxes if Bing thinks the topic is trending. This feature was spotted by Khushal Bherwani on X and then Shameem Adhikarath on X a day later. Here are some … Read more
This is the last SEO video recap of the year, and I covered a summary of all the confirmed Google algorithm updates in 2023. I also discussed the Christmas Google search ranking volatility we saw earlier this week. Bing Chat added favicons to links. Google’s John Mueller said SEO won’t die in the first half … Read more
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