Category: Bing Search

This is a cute user interface test from Bing, where when you hover your mouse cursor over the title of a search result snippet, it then shows the favicon of the site on the left of that title.

After a couple of months of testing, Microsoft made it official and rebranded Bing to Microsoft Bing. Bing also has this new curved logo it is sporting, which it began testing in April of this year.

Bing said its intelligent questions and answers search feature is now supported in over 100 different languages. It is all powered by Bing’s use of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The folks at Bing posted a blog post showcasing some of the “next waves” of improvements around their deep learning and artificial intelligence techniques that help improve Bing Search. Bing highlighted improvements to autosuggest, people also ask, in…

Bing Search is testing an open links in new tab toggle feature directly at the top of its search results page. Frank Sandtmann shared this with me via email yesterday and I was able to replicate it. But not everyone is seeing it, so it does seem like…

Bing announced it has added the ability to do voice search queries from the Bing desktop interface. The mobile interface had it for a long time, and Google had it on its desktop search since 2016. Heck Microsoft launched its voice search feature in 2…

Bing has this new, I think it is new, streaming carousel, for live video game or other video streams. The Microsoft Bing Developer Twitter account shared information on it saying the “streaming carousels let you easily search through the top live stre…

Over the weekend a lot of people who use Bing saw a new logo and new name for the Bing search engine. Now it says Microsoft Bing instead of just Bing and the logo is the Microsoft logo, not the Bing logo.

Bing can now answer some yes or no questions – which is incredibly cool. Bing announced that it deployed large neural network models that allows it to answer yes or no questions, expand its intelligent answers globally and better understand complex an…

Bing announced it has partnered with GoFundMe to integrate it into Bing Places. This enables businesses that need funding from its community an easy way to highlight that need in Bing Search and Bing Maps.

It looks like Bing is testing a new logo, one with curves. The current logo has sharp edges and corners but the new one gives the whole logo softer edges, more curves and maybe a friendly look.

Bing announced that is now supports SpecialAnnouncement schema. Bing said “Bing may consume case statistics from government health agencies at the country, state or province, administrative area, and city level that use the schema.org markup for disea…

Yesterday we reported that 58% of SEOs would like to see Google stop with the Google algorithm updates during this time. But 42% said Google should continue. Google really has not commented but Bing’s Frederic Dubut said Bing will continue to update …

Dawn Anderson reshared a tweet from Alexander Bondarenko that sat in an information retrieval conference where Microsoft demoed how Bing Search can generate clarifying questions for certain queries in the search results. This photo shows a screen shot…

Microsoft posted on its research blog about advancements it is making with the Turing Natural Language Generation (T-NLG) model. Similar to other deep learning language models like BERT and others, this one is more powerful in that it is the largest …

Did you know that the other day Windows 10 Search powered by Bing was offline for several hours? The Verge reported “Microsoft’s built-in Windows search went down for many users for more than three hours today. Windows search is built into Microsoft’s…

Bing has quietly launched Bing Pages, a beta program that lets users manage their presence on Microsoft products such as Bing and Outlook.com. You can access it over at https://www.bing.com/bp/gettingstarted

Frédéric Dubut of Bing said on Twitter that if you do use machine learning in production, like Bing does, you have to be okay with the results not being perfect. And not all applications are okay with not being perfect, but I assume search can be okay with it.

Frédéric Dubut from Bing said on Twitter “Every time we evaluate a ranking improvement, we look at the trade-off between cost and value.” He added that this discussion is not always a fun topic but it is a necessary one.

I mentioned this before, but did you know that Bing has been using BERT since April of this year. That is about 6-months prior to when Google started using it. Also, Bing said in this blog post that BERT like “models are now applied to every Bing sear…