Microsoft announced yesterday it has begun testing its new Bing generative search experience – so Bing GSE (versus Google SGE). “By combining the power of generative AI and large language ****** (LLMs) with the search results page, Bing’s generative search creates a bespoke and dynamic response to a user’s query,” Microsoft wrote. This is being … Read more
Reddit has updated its robots.txt file, preventing Bing and many other search engines from crawling the site. “Bing stopped crawling Reddit after they implemented their updated robots.txt file on July 1, which prohibits all crawling of their site,” a Microsoft representative told Search Engine Land. What happened. On July 1, 2024, Reddit updated its robots.txt … Read more
Bing is now testing its new generative search experience that combines the Bing search results and its language ****** to use AI to generate a different breed of search results, including an AI-generated search results pages. “I’m excited to share an early look at Bing’s new generative search experience. It combines the power of LLMs … Read more
Bing is testing placing the related searches at the top of the search results page, directly under the search bar. The searches are exactly what you would see in the bottom but in a different format at the top. I cannot replicate this but Khushal Bherwani posted screenshots of this on X – here it … Read more
Bing is testing a voting feature in the Bing Search results. You can vote up or vote down specific search results in the search results page. It even shows you the percentage of votes for those who voted it up versus voted it down. Shameem Adhikarath spotted this, I cannot replicate it, but he posted … Read more
Bing Search is now showing coupons deeper in the search results interface, where you now need to click (or hover over) the explore menu icon to see them. Previously, Bing would show these as buttons or labels under the search result snippets, which make them more visible for the searcher. Here is how I see … Read more
Bing is testing adding nutritional details to images in its search results. It includes labeling food products with “high calcium,” “lean protein,” “anti-inflammatory,” and other labels. I can’t replicate this but Khushal Bherwani spotted this and posted several examples on X, here are those examples: Is this a good feature? Do you see it? Forum … Read more
Microsoft has added a new guideline to its Bing Webmaster Guidelines named “prompt injection.” This is to cover the abuse and attack of language ****** by websites and webpages. Prompt injection guideline. The new guideline was posted at the bottom of the current Bing Webmaster Guidelines. It reads: Prompt injection: Do not add content on … Read more
Microsoft may now include AI generated content within the Bing Search people also ask sections. Bing is labeling some of the people also ask boxes with the disclaimer, “Includes Al generated content.” Last November we covered how Bing Search may use AI to write search snippets – so it should be no surprise that Bing … Read more
XML sitemaps are essential for every site’s SEO strategy and are a big part of our core Yoast SEO product. Both Google and Bing have recently renewed emphasis on properly using the lastmod (last modified) tag in XML sitemaps. The leading search engines now advise site owners to use this feature properly for better crawling … Read more
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