Year: 2021

Microsoft Bing updates recipe results, similar looking items, expandable carousels, infographic panels and local answers design. Microsoft announced several updates to Microsoft Bing Search that make the search experience more “visually immersive,” the company said. This update goes across many different search features including recipe results, image search’s similar looking items, expandable search result carousels, infographic knowledge panels and the local answers design. Let’s go through each update briefly below. Infographic-like search panel experience Microsoft launched these new knowledge panel designs that have very visually appealing. Microsoft said it’s goal…

You can now see crawling and indexing data directly in the search performance report. Microsoft Bing has added some new metrics to the search performance report within Bing Webmaster Tools. The new metrics include crawl requests, crawl errors, and indexed pages — all of which are not really directly related to the performance of your search results in Microsoft Bing. Frank Sandtmann, a German SEO consultant, notified us of this new feature this morning and it is indeed new. We do not see an announcement about this from Microsoft. Nor…

Days after Yahoo was caught testing a Google search design interface, Bing is also caught testing it. Ruben Gomez spotted yet another interesting test, this one by Bing, testing a similar user interface to Google’s default search interface. Yahoo did the same thing earlier this week, where they took a very similar Google design approach and tested it for some of their users. Now it seems Bing is testing that same Google search interface as well. Here is a picture of the Bing design test: Here is a picture of what a typical…