Category: Bing Search

Bing announced several updates to their Cortana engine (i.e. Microsoft’s answer to Apple Siri and Google Now).

The updates include evening data, location aware cards for concerts in your area and apps based on your location…

In late August, Bing announced the Bing Image Widget Tool and then a couple weeks later, Getty Images sued Microsoft over that tool, citing “massive infringement” of copyrighted images.

Then within a couple days, Microsoft pulled the tool, as you ca…

Remember the Bing Image Widget Tool where you can take a query and embed it on your site, and Bing will display images matches the query? Fun tool right…

Spotted today by @rgomezric, Bing is also testing a box/card like search results interface.

@rgomezric spotted a new Bing user interface test, where they moved the navigation bar below the search box.
Bing is testing three different flavors of this test and @rgomezric captured all of them.

Bing has added a new tool to create an “image widget” out of the Bing Image search results.

Bing says that the “Bing Image Widget enhances your web site with the power of Bing Image Search and provides your users with beautiful…

Bing announced they now have conversational search, similar to how to how Google introduced it over a year ago.
I tested it out search for [who is the president of russia?]

Bing announced they are launching a new malware and safety tool within the search results to better warn and communicate to both searchers and webmasters about safety issues with the listings…

Bing announced that in the most recent Google Chrome browser update, that when you change your default search provider from Google to Bing…

Earlier this week we reported that Microsoft was taking their time working up a solution for Bing to handle the right to be forgotten strategy. Well, yesterday…

As you know, the EU has mandated the search engines to remove content that might be harmful to people on a case by case basis. Google launched a form for this removal and began removing this content. They even started an advisory council to help them w…

Microsoft announced on the Bing blog that they have integrated the Bing Knowledge Widgets directly into Bing Webmaster Tools. In addition…

Bing announced they are going to get faster, twice as fast to be exact…

Today is Bing’s fifth birthday and as you can see, we dressed up our site to celebrate the big day. Five years old…

Yesterday at the Apple WWDC event, which you can watch over here if you missed it, Apple showcased the new Spotlight feature in their preview of OSX…

Duane Forrester from Bing announced on the Bing Webmaster Blog that they are closing down the Bing Webmaster Forums in the upcoming days.

Honestly…

Carl Malamud, a well respected technologist, author, and public domain advocate posted on Twitter that Bing’s spider “got a timeout” by not playing nice with the IRS database. It seems that BingBot…

Bing is testing a new search results design – the design makes for a fresher and cleaner feel…

Yesterday, Microsoft announced their answer to Apple Siri and Google Now – Cortana.
Cortana is a virtual assistant for your Windows devices…

Bing has added over a 150 million new entities to their snapshot/satori engine this past week.

This incorporates adding entity data around doctors, lawyers, dentists…