Microsoft recently added an animation or highlight effect on its featured answers or knowledge panels at the top of its Bing Search results. When you hover your mouse over the table of content on the left side, the section it corresponds to in the answer, will expand. Here is a GIF of this in action: … Read more
Microsoft now has these refinement cards or boxes directly in the Bing Image Search results interface. In these cards, Bing will show you a refinement option for your query with example photos you might find for that refined search query. I spotted this via Frank Sandtmann on Mastodon who wrote, “I don’t think I have … Read more
Most SEO campaigns focus almost entirely on the almighty Google due to its sheer dominance of the search engine industry (it currently accounts for 91.05% of the market). However, Google is by no means the only search engine out there, even if it is the most prominent. Coming in at a modest second place is … Read more
Between Google and Bing, which search engine should you focus on? Should you focus on both or prioritize one over the other? Google is still the world’s most popular search engine and dominant APP store player, but things are changing quickly in an AI-driven world. With the rise of artificial intelligence and both Bing and … Read more
A Google document that came out of the DOJ trails said that back in 2017, Bing Search was faster than Google was specifically looking at mobile queries. The document was an internal Google document and went through 10 elements of latency. I spotted this via Juan González Villa who posted a screenshot of this on … Read more
Microsoft is testing a weird change to the Bing Search results user experience. Bing is testing that when you do a search from the home page, that it opens the search results in a new window, instead of loading those results on the same tab you are on. Bing is also testing opening a new … Read more
Microsoft looks to have pushed out a Bing Search ranking algorithm update around May 29th. I don’t track Bing Search ranking volatility that closely anymore but Glenn Gabe looked back at some data and believes that around May 29, 2024, there was a big Bing core update (if you will). Fabrice Canel from Microsoft responded … Read more
Microsoft reported its fourth quarter 2024 earnings and it showed that its search and advertising revenue was up 19%. The last time it was up over 19% in a quarter was 10 quarterly earning reports ago, in Q3 2022. Microsoft wrote, “Search and news advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs increased 19%.” Here are the … Read more
This week, we covered yet again more Google Search ranking volatility. Microsoft is testing its new Bing generative search experience. Reddit blocked Bing and other search engines that won’t pay for its content. Google is not going to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome. Google will test ads in AI Overviews soon. Google tests link icons … Read more
On July 1, 2024, Reddit updated its robots.txt file to prohibit most search engine and AI crawlers from accessing its content – including blocking Microsoft Bing. Reddit did not block Google Search, which we covered here a few weeks ago. A Microsoft spokesperson told me last *****, “We respect the robots.txt standard. Bing stopped crawling … Read more
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