Category: Bing

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. Here’s a screen shot of what Bing’s new search page interface would […] 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…

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This tool gives SEOs information on how Microsoft Bing does just that and then gives you more data on clicks, impressions, links, errors, warnings, indexing issues and much more. Microsoft Bing has announced the re-launch of Bing Site Explorer. Don’t be fooled, Bing Site Explorer is a complete revamp from the old version. Bing did not simply migrate the feature from the old version of Bing Webmaster Tools to the new version of Bing Webmaster Tools. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft told us, “This is a complete new experience, cleaner and far easier to use…

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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 way through the 2016 Presidential elections. While Bing Pulse […] 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…

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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. Based on search, social and other relevant […] 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…

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Reputation VIP, which operates the Forget.me website in Europe, has said that Microsoft/Bing is starting to implement “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) requests. The company released a study of RTBF requests and Google in October, which was generally consistent with Google’s own subsequently released data. Forget.me said initially that 60 percent of RTBF requests to Google were being denied. Google itself reported 58 percent. […] Reputation VIP, which operates the Forget.me website in Europe, has said that Microsoft/Bing is starting to implement “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) requests. The company released a study of RTBF requests and Google in October, which was generally consistent with Google’s own subsequently…

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The new Bing Webmaster Tool can also be used to edit robots.txt files and check URLs for errors instantly. Bing has added a robots.txt tester to its Webmaster Tools, the company announced Friday. The new feature allows SEOs to analyze their robots.txt files and highlights issues that may hinder Bing from optimal crawling. The robots.txt tester and editor within Bing Webmaster Tools. How it works. SEOs can use this tool to test and validate their robots.txt file, or to check whether a URL is blocked, which statement is blocking it and for which…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Search results include complete men’s college basketball tournament bracket, along with Bing’s game-by-game predictions. To no one’s surprise, Bing is predicting that the University of Kentucky will win the men’s college basketball national championship. And anyone doing searches on terms like “NCAA,” “March Madness” and “college hoops” will see the entire tournament bracket and Bing’s predictions for all 69 games right in the search results. It’s all a result of that Bing/NCAA partnership announced last week, along with about seven hours of data crunching by the Bing Predictions team after the tournament…

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