Meta AI, announced today, is a new conversational assistant “you can interact with like a person,” according to the company. Microsoft Bing is working with Meta to “integrate Bing into Meta AI’s chat experiences enabling more timely and up-to-**** answers with access to real-time search information,” according to Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President and Consumer … Read more
Open AI has reenabled the Bing search feature it has added to its ChatGPT AI service after temporarily disabling the feature in early July. “ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021,” wrote … Read more
Bing Chat’s precise mode has received a big upgrade that makes those answers a lot better. “Finished rolling out a pretty big update in our Precise mode of Bing Chat – no new features, just better answers,” Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft announced on X. Bing Chat has three response modes, (a) precise, (b) balanced and … Read more
On September 21st, 2023, Fabrice Canel, the Principal Program Manager for Bing Webmaster Tools, announced the company’s plans to get rid of the disavow links feature in October of this year. Their reasoning? According to Canel, Bing’s AI is now sophisticated enough to understand the context and intent of links, as well as their levels … Read more
Bing decided not to wait for the alternative approach to a robots.txt method for blocking AI tools from using your content and decided to go with what is out there now, meta tag approaches. Bing will continue to work with the rest of the AI community to come up with solutions but for now, since … Read more
At the Microsoft AI event last Thursday, Microsoft also announced new AI-based ad features in the upcoming months. This includes Copilot, which will help you create ads in Microsoft Advertising, and a new ad format exclusive to the Bing Chat interface named compare and decide ads. As a reminder, Kya Sainsbury-Carter, the Corporate Vice President … Read more
At the Microsoft AI event on last Thursday, I had a sit down with Kya Sainsbury-Carter, the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Advertising, who told me that clicks on ads within Bing Chat are higher than clicks on ads in traditional search. 1.8X higher to be exact and with shopping ads, specifically in Bing Chat, … Read more
Bing has announced a set of new controls to allow webmasters and site owners to block Bing Chat from using its content for AI training and Microsoft’s generative AI ******. “While we are actively collaborating with the industry on establishing future AI standards, we also wanted to provide more immediate support for publishers,” Fabrice Canel … Read more
Bing Webmaster Tools began testing its new Sitemap Index Coverage report in June after it was announced a few months prior. As of a few weeks ago, it went fully live, but Microsoft didn’t announce it until yesterday at the keynote Fabrice Canel gave at PubCon. Here is what the report looks like: You should … Read more
Bing Chat announced yesterday at the AI event a new Bing Chat feature that uses “memory” – something we covered a couple of times here before. This is called personalized answers and Bing Chat will use your previous queries to give you a more personalized response. “Now your chat history can inform your results. For … Read more
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