Microsoft claims its attempts to sell Bing to Apple were blocked by Google. The tech giant’s CEO of Advertising and Web Services, Mikhail Parakhin, said he offered Apple more than 100% of the revenue or gross profit to make Bing its default search engine – but the proposal was rejected because of the company’s deal … Read more
Last week, we reported about the new Bing Chat personalized answers feature that uses your chat history to give you a more tailored answer to your queries. But that might only work in Edge, Microsoft’s browser. When I tested this feature, I couldn’t trigger it, so I assumed it was still rolling out. But it … Read more
This week in search, Google finished rolling out the September 2023 helpful content update, which seemed to target SEO-first, search engine-first content in a big way. Google won’t be rolling back that update, if you were wondering. Google SGE got an update, too, with new, improved responses, safer responses, and also the “about this result” … Read more
OpenAI has relaunched the browse with Bing feature in ChatGPT which lets users use ChatGPT leveraging the index of Bing Search. This was after Open AI turned off the feature after it was caught accessing content behind paywalls. OpenAI has said on X, “ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and … Read more
A few months ago we reported how it was nearly impossible for a trained SEM to spot the ad label on these Microsoft Advertising search ads on Bing Search. Well, now, Bing is testing not showing an ad label at all on these ads in Bing Search. Frank Sandtmann stumbled on these Bing search ads … Read more
Meta AI, announced today, is a new conversational assistant “you can interact with like a person,” according to the company. Microsoft Bing is working with Meta to “integrate Bing into Meta AI’s chat experiences enabling more timely and up-to-**** answers with access to real-time search information,” according to Yusuf Mehdi, Corporate Vice President and Consumer … Read more
Open AI has reenabled the Bing search feature it has added to its ChatGPT AI service after temporarily disabling the feature in early July. “ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021,” wrote … Read more
Bing Chat’s precise mode has received a big upgrade that makes those answers a lot better. “Finished rolling out a pretty big update in our Precise mode of Bing Chat – no new features, just better answers,” Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft announced on X. Bing Chat has three response modes, (a) precise, (b) balanced and … Read more
On September 21st, 2023, Fabrice Canel, the Principal Program Manager for Bing Webmaster Tools, announced the company’s plans to get rid of the disavow links feature in October of this year. Their reasoning? According to Canel, Bing’s AI is now sophisticated enough to understand the context and intent of links, as well as their levels … Read more
Bing decided not to wait for the alternative approach to a robots.txt method for blocking AI tools from using your content and decided to go with what is out there now, meta tag approaches. Bing will continue to work with the rest of the AI community to come up with solutions but for now, since … Read more
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