Bing Pride Month Search Box Rainbow
We often highlight some of the cool easter eggs Google implants within their search results page but what about Bing? Well, if you start searching for pride related phrases, Bing will drop down their auto-complete and use a rainbow for the background …
Bing Open Sources Their Vector Search Algorithm To Make Finding Results Fast
Bing announced they have made their Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG) vector search algorithm open source to help others who want to make it possible to search through billions of pieces of information in milliseconds.
Bing Search Makes Improvements To Their Intelligent Answers, Text-To-Speech & Visual Search
Bing published some upgrades they made to Bing search the other day. In short, they upgraded their intelligent answers system, their text-to-speech capabilities and their visual search engine.
Bing Looking To Hire Project Manager To Work On Search Rankings
Bing’s Frédéric Dubut posted on Twitter that his company, Microsoft, is looking to hire a new project manager to work on the “secrets of the Bing ranking algorithm.” Specifically they are hiring a PM to work on the 10 blue links that show up in the Bing search results. He calls them Bing’s crown jewels.
Bing: Machine Learning Leads To More Human Like Ranking In Search
Bing’s Frédéric Dubut said on Twitter and in a quote at Search Engine Journal that machine learning helps with scaling generalizing, which is how humans would manually rank search results. So using machine learning to rank search results is a good way to get Bing’s search results to look more human tailored and thus better.
Bing App Doppelganger Camera Feature
I am not sure if this is new, but Bing posted on Twitter that the Bing app lets you take a selfie, a picture of yourself, and it will find a celebrity that looks like you. I tried it myself and I came up for myself, even though I am not a celebrity.
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Bing Finally Adds AMP To Search Results
Bing has finally added AMP to the news section of the search results. So now, if you site comes up in Bing search news and if it is AMP and if you are in the United States searching, you may see the AMP lightening bolt next to those stories and when y…
Bing Hotel Search, Home Repair Search & Deal Search Gets A Boost
Check out some of the new Bing search features around hotel search results, finding costs around home repair and finding good deals online. Bing really dug deep to make these search results useful.
Bing Webmaster API Still Broken After 2 Weeks – No Fix In Sight
Over a week ago, I reported that Bing Webmaster Tools API was down and then began using some of my channels to find out what is up. All of my channels failed to lead…
Bing Tests Open In New Tab Button In Search
Bing is testing a new search results feature where they add an icon as you hover either the search ads or organic results. The icon is an open in new window or new tab icon…
Bing Adds More Intelligent Search Features
Bing announced this week that they launched new intelligent search features. Here is a quick run down on those features:
Bing Multi-Perspective Answers – Like Two Featured Snippets
Bing wrote about their new Multi-Perspective Answers for their Intelligent Answers set. This is similar to what Google calls “featured snippets,” in case you were wondering.
In this case…
Bing Adds Intelligent Answers, Reddit & More Conversational Features To Search
Bing announced they added some new search features to their search engine including intelligent answers…
Bing To Crawl Web For PWAs For Inclusion In Windows App Store?
Ryan Hayes posted on Twitter that Microsoft Bing will be crawling the web for PWAs and will then decide to “auto-ingests quality” PWAs into the Windows store. He posted this based on what Microsoft said at the Microsoft Edge Web Summit…
Bing Featured Snippets Direct Answers You Can Edit With Bing Distill
Bing offered their form of direct answers years ago but now I noticed those boxes allow you to actually edit them. Also the answers seem to be coming up more often as a WebmasterWorld thread seems to imply.
Here is one result that has this direct an…
Bing Supports ClaimReview For Fact Checking Markup
Aaron Bradley, the markup king, posted on Google+ that Bing updated their structured data documentation to now support ClaimReview. ClaimReview annotations should be
Bing Offers Historical Knowledge Box: Search “On This Day”
Bing quietly announced on Twitter that if you search for [on this day] in Bing you may just get an historical knowledge box showing you important and historical events that happened on this day in the past…
Bing Search Results Snippets Adds “Popular Content” Box
David Iwanow shared with me on Twitter a new feature from Bing that shows a new search result snippet box named “popular content.” It looks like an expanded and more visual version of sitelinks in the search results. The weird part…
Bing Image Search Too Slow To Drop Removed Images?
Most image search engines, including Google, are very slow to pick up on new images but removing images that go 404, page not found…