Microsoft appears to be testing a new feature for Bing: Bing Saves. According to a Neowin community member who saw the beta, it’s a way to click and bookmark a search result for later retrieval from a personal Microsoft account. Below…
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Bing Tags Hangs It Up & Shuts Down
Bing Tags, which launched two years ago as Bing Linked Pages and then renamed and did an expansion about a year ago, has hung up the project and shut down the feature. Bing closed down Bing Tags on June 14,…
Bing Testing New Search Results Design
Bing is testing a new search results layout that changes the color of the logo from gray to the yellow/orange, changes the color of the search button and removes the gray background color from the right side rail. Bing has…
Bing Expands Snapshot With New Food & Drug Entities
Bing is getting smarter today with the addition of food- and drug-related entities to its library of facts. The new at-a-glance information for these searches will appear in the Snapshot area on the right side of Bing’s search results. In…
Searching For Movie Showtimes? Bing Scores 100% In Test, Google Only 70%
Looking for the next showing of “Jersey Boys”? If you’re searching for movie times, chances are you’ll have better luck finding them on Bing than searching for a movie on Google. After the producers for the documentary “America: Imagine the…
Bing On Search Spam Detection Techniques & Filtering
Microsoft’s Igor Rondel, Principal Development Manager of the Bing Index Quality team published a blog post on the Bing Search blog named Web Spam Filtering. In the post, Igor shares how Bing goes about detecting, processing, and filtering out search…
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…
Bing Updates iOS App Adding Swipeable Trends & Redesign Home Screen
Check out the new updated Bing mobile app that has a fully redesigned home screen and new features to make searching on the go more enjoyable. Bing announced they pushed out a new update to their iOS app adding a redesigned home screen, trending…
Bing Ads Updates Campaign Planner Tool For Search Trends, Keyword And Competitive Research
In September, Bing Ads released its Campaign Planner tool, which includes vertical and product trend data, keyword research and competitive insights. This week, the first update to the tool was released. If you’re not already familiar with this tool, I…
Bing Ads Unified Device Targeting Is Here: Explicit Smartphone Campaigns End This Week
The forced migration could lead to competing ad serving in your account if you haven’t take action. Today, Bing Ads continues with its consolidation of device targeting, spurred by Google’s Enhanced Campaigns. Following up on its change back in October to group…