Bing Honors Veterans On Both Sides Of The Ocean With The Tower Of London Image On Homepage
To honor all veterans, Bing is featuring The Tower of London on its homepage today. Bing acknowledged not only is today Veteran’s Day, but also marks Remembrance Day in the UK. Dating back to the eleventh century, The Tower of London is a historic English castle that is currently home to The…
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Bing Predicts More Than 95% Of The Senate, House & Governor Elections
While some may be surprised with just how red the U.S. elections went last week, it appears Bing knew all along. Following last Tuesday’s national elections, Bing announced it had predicted more than 95 percent of the called races for state Governors, U.S. Senate and House of Representatives….
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Bing: It’s Unlikely That We’ll Take Search Share Away From Google
Microsoft’s Director of Search admitted this week that Bing isn’t likely to put a significant dent in Google’s search market share. Stefan Weitz appeared Tuesday at the Web Summit conference in Ireland, where he told attendees that Bing instead wants to focus on making its search…
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U.S. 2014 Elections: Google & Bing Both Deliver Quick Answers For Election Results With An Interactive Map
As promised, Google and Bing are both offering quick answers for election-related queries. Searching “election results” on Google provides a quick answer box with a color-coded map of the U.S. to show which states went red and which went blue. Users have the option to click on House,…
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Bing Adds New Crawlers To Support Non-Responsive Mobile Designs
Bing announced a new set of mobile crawlers with Bingbot Mobile User Agents to better support and recognize mobile web sites that are not responsively designed. Lee Xiong from the Bing Crawl team explained they have designed these new crawlers to “probe websites with a number of new crawlers…
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Where Do I Vote? Today’s Google Logo Delivers Quick Answers For Election Day
It’s election day and Google is helping get the vote out. Today’s logo links to a search for “Where do I vote?” which provides a quick answer box where users can enter their address to find polling locations. According to Google, the following searches will give users…
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Bing Images Adds Animated GIF Filter
Bing announced there is a new filter within Bing Images to let you only see animated GIF images. Animated GIFs are a grouping of images that may appear as a movie but are just a series of images. You can now filter your image searches on Bing by the an…
Duane Forrester, Bing’s Long-Time Webmaster Outreach Manager, Loses Job In Microsoft Layoffs
Duane Forrester, the senior product manager in charge of webmaster outreach for Bing, has lost his job as part of the recently announced layoffs at Microsoft. The move leaves Bing without one of its longest-serving and recognizable faces to the SEO and…
Bing Now Lets You Search By Emoji
Want to search for something using popular emoji characters? Microsoft’s Bing search engine now supports this. Bing announced the news in a post today, sharing some examples of why you might want to do this. For one, perhaps you want to know what exactly a particular emoji means. Enter that…
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Who’s Really Winning The Search War?
Ask any search marketer what Google’s market share is, and they’ll likely say around 66%. That’s the stat comScore has long supplied. Contributor Eli Schwartz asks whether it’s really accurate, and conducts research to prove it.
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Bing Teams Up With CNN To Let Viewers Give “Real-Time” Feedback On 2014 Election Coverage
Bing is upping its political game, announcing today a partnership with CNN where users can give “real-time feedback” on CNN’s political coverage via Bing Pulse. According to the announcement, viewers will be able to vote on CNN broadcasts during the 2014 US elections, and all the…
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Bing & Google Offering New Search Tools For 2014 Election Season
With the November 4th elections looming ever so near, both Bing and Google have launched search tools to help voters stay informed. From news and analysis, to predictions and voter registration information, each site is doing their part to help voters …
Bing Shows What’s Playing At The Movies, In Remake Of Google’s Own Film Carousel
Bing has a new way of showing you what’s playing in your local theater, a “carousel” format that lets you browse what’s playing. If you think you’ve seen this before, you have. It’s how Google already does it. The Movie Carousel A search for something like…
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Bing Starts Showing Full Song Lyrics Right In Search Results
While SEOs debate Google’s recent addition of structured data in its search results, Bing is making a similar — and perhaps more significant — change to its search results: Full song lyrics are now showing on Bing’s search results page in the US, and Bing says it plans to…
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Bing: No Plans To Give Ranking Boost For HTTPS
At Search Marketing Expo, Bing’s Vincent Wehren, the Lead Program Manager for Bing Webmaster Tools, said they have no plans on ever giving a ranking boost to websites that switch to HTTPS. In August, Google began giving sites that use HTTPS a ranking boost as a bit of an incentive to…
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Google Market Share: 67 Percent On PC, 83 Percent In Mobile
Last week comScore released its August US search market share rankings report. It appears Google has permanently plateaued at 67 percent (or so). In Europe Google’s share is above 90 percent, which is why all the antitrust activity. Back in the US, Microsoft and Yahoo combined for 29 percent,…
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Bing Correctly Predicts “No” Win In Scotland Independence Vote
A few days ago, we reported that Bing predicted on September 15th that the vote for Scotland’s independence would be a “No” with a 52.5% vote for NO and a 47.5% vote for YES. The final results are now in and it was a 55% vote for No, so Bing’s prediction was correct and very…
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Bing Image Widget Now Offline After Getty Images Lawsuit
The Bing Image Widget that launched on August 22nd is now temporarily offline after Getty Images sued Microsoft over the feature. If you try to access the tool, you will be presented with a notice that the “Image Widget” has been “temporarily removed the beta.” Here is a…
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Bing Testing More Updates To Its Search Results Page
After this week’s story on possible changes coming to Bing’s navigation bar, it appears the site is also testing how search results are displayed. Along with repositioning its navigation bar, All Google reports Bing is experimenting with Google-like search cards for its results….
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Bing Tests New Search Results Design & Top Navigation
Bing is testing several new interfaces for their search results. The tests interface includes moving the top navigation below the search box, using yellow lines above or on the left side of the navigation menus and/or gray arrows integrated with the to…