A few weeks ago we reported that the Bing Chat infrastructure upgrade that Microsoft is working on was taking longer than expected. Well, on Friday, Microsoft Bing’s CEO, Mikhail Parakhin said it was 99% done, and thus almost ready to go live. Mikhail Parakhin wrote on Twitter after he was asked about the status of … Read more
We previously reported how Bing Chat lets you select text on the Bing search results to conduct another search. Now Bing is expanding that to also let you search directly on Bing Chat, not just Bing Search. This was spotted by Frank Sandtmann and he posted about it on Mastodon – I can replicate it, … Read more
In six months since Bing and Edge’s reinvention, Microsoft reports staggering user engagement with over one billion Bing AI chats and 750 million images generated. Additionally, Edge has seen nine consecutive quarters of growth, demonstrating its capacity to deliver high-quality artificial intelligence experiences to users worldwide. AI-Generated Images And Chat History Microsoft’s novel introduction of … Read more
Brave Search announced the launch of its privacy-preserving image and video search results this week, freeing itself from reliance on companies like Microsoft and Google. The announcement reads: “Users will no longer need to leave Brave Search for image and video search results. Now, any Brave Search query can be served directly from Brave’s index, … Read more
This morning Bing Chat started to work across non-Edge browsers. That means, if you are logged into Bing, you can use Bing Chat on Chrome and Firefox and likely other browsers. We knew this was coming soon and it seems to have started to roll out Friday morning at around 5am ET. Try it in … Read more
This week we covered a possible Google algorithm updater yesterday and today. We also covered how the new Google Search Generative Experience now can show both links to sources and videos in the answer snapshots. Google SGE also has these new “from Google” cards in the answers. Google Search Generative Experience does not always show … Read more
Here are two screenshots of search ads in the Bing Search results. Let me know how long it takes you to find the “ad” label on these ads. It took me a while, like a good 20-30 seconds to find the ad label on these ads. These screenshots were taken by Frank Sandtmann; he posted … Read more
Select Google Chrome users can now access Microsoft’s Bing AI chat and AI-powered search results on desktop browsers. In an emailed statement, Caitlin Roulston, Director of Communications at Microsoft noted: “We are flighting access to Bing Chat in Safari and Chrome to select users as part of our testing on other browsers. We are excited … Read more
Microsoft is working hard to upgrade the Bing Chat infrastructure. This will not only make Bing Chat faster and more reliable but also enable features like third-party plugins and nosearch. But this upgrade is taking longer than expected, according to Bing’s CEO, Mikhail Parakhin. Mikhail Parakhin was asked for an update on both plugins and … Read more
Bing is now testing showing branded side labels next to each search result listing. We saw earlier more basic side labels and before that branded side bars for some search queries. I am also seeing favicons on the side of the snippets. Bing is always very busy testing these things. This was spotted by Frank … Read more
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