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Bing can now answer queries with a simple ‘Yes’ or ‘No’
The yes/no summary uses natural-language modeling and comes with a carousel of sources.
Bing migrates Submit URL, Block URL and Crawl Control to the new Webmaster Tools
Bing Webmaster Tools will be fully revamped by July, Bing’s Fabrice Canel said at SMX London.
SMX Overtime: Schema and structured data — hidden gold for SEOs
Technical SEO Chris Long discusses the benefits of schema, MREIDs and markup for e-commerce category pages and more.
The White House wants us to use Schema for COVID-19 announcements
Private sector businesses are also urged to use the new “SpecialAnnouncement” and “eventAttendanceMode” tags when appropriate.
Bing adds snippet controls to help sites control their search result previews
Google began supporting these new controls last September and now Bing adds control for snippets.
Bing launches new portal for URL and content submission APIs
Check out this new site from Bing to find everything you need to know about the two APIs.
A look at Google’s recent COVID-19 related policies in search
It’s critical for all search engines to pull together to thwart bad actors and provide accurate information consumers need during a crisis.
Yahoo and other Verizon-owned search sites favor Verizon media properties [Study]
Study compared rankings for the same queries across six Bing-powered search sites, including Bing itself.
Schema.org adds coronavirus-related structured data types in version 7.0
“SpecialAnnouncement” and “eventAttendanceMode” can help businesses provide event updates in the search results.
Bing announces refreshed Bing Webmaster Tools
In the coming weeks, a new Bing Webmaster Tools will make for a faster, cleaner, responsive and actionable toolset for SEOs and webmasters.
Botify partnership with Microsoft brings real-time content indexing to Bing
Immediate indexing and more control over content are the benefits for publishers and site owners.
With Bing Pages, brands can manage their profiles across Microsoft products, including Bing Search
Brands can also use Bing Pages to promote their social content on relevant search results.
SEOs must focus on intent research practices in 2020
It is more important than ever to update your research methods since the release of BERT and the evolution of natural language processing.
The consumer decision journey will drive paid search in 2020
In organic search, you're going to see a push of data directly to search engines instead of relying on them to crawl.
Yandex, the big Russian search engine, releases Vega update
Yandex doubled the size of its index, made it faster and added human elements to search.
Bing to update BingBot’s user agent
BingBot is getting a new name, just like GoogleBot - are you ready?
Video: Frédéric Dubut of Bing on core ranking, spam fighting and much more
The Lead PM of Bing’s Core Ranking Team sat down and answered some questions around how Bing Search works.
Bing says it has been applying BERT since April
The natural language processing capabilities are now applied to all Bing queries globally.
Bing introduces penalty for ‘inorganic site structure’ violations
It includes penalties for subdomain leasing, doorway content and sites involved in private blog networks.
Bing launches content submission pilot
Bing is testing a feature to let some publishers not just submit URLs to the search engine but also submit content and images.
Bingbot goes evergreen
Bing will adopt Chromium-based Edge browser to run JavaScript and render pages.
Bing Webmaster Tools allows site verification via Google Search Console
The beta option enables site owners to skip verification by importing.
Bing Webmaster Tools adds Domain Connect verification integration
Bing makes it easier to verify some sites with Bing Webmaster Tools.
Bing is asking for feedback on its Webmaster Guidelines
“Any shady tactics you think are not penalized enough?” Bing project manager tweeted.
Why Google dropped Bing Discover pages from its index
No matter how big you are, if you go against Google's guidelines it can end up biting you.
Bing showing a streamlined recipe carousel in search results
Users can still filter rich results according to time and nutrition.
Using structured data to create a semantically enhanced web
At SMX Advanced, speakers Cata Milos and Max Prin highlight the rise of structured data for Bing and Google – and the work being done to expand its practical use.
Bing now supports batch mode for submitting URLs to Bing
You can now use a single Bing API request to submit up to 500 URLs, instead of making 500 individual API requests.
Google and Bing talk web spam and penalties
How Bing and Google do algorithm updates to improve their search results and how to deal with penalties.
Microsoft goes open source with one of its Bing algorithms
Microsoft's Space Partition Tree and Graph algorithm enables developers to apply vector search to traditional, audio and visual queries.
10 principles of digital accessibility for modern marketers
Developers and designers can help differently abled users navigate websites by using CSS to control visual page elements. Here are other ways accessible websites are built.
Google apologizes for rel=next/prev mixup
Google suggests webmasters, developers, and publisher continue to use rel=prev/next for other reasons outside of Google indexing purposes.
Bing upgrades text-to-speech, expands intelligent answers, improves visual search
Check out the latest upgrades made to Bing around voice, image and answer search.
Bing to publishers: Start using new Bing URL submission process for indexing now
Do you have new or updated content you want Bing to discover faster? Start using the new Bing URL Submission tool.
Bing lets webmasters submit 10,000 URLs per day through Webmaster Tools
How about a 1000x increase in the number of URLs you can submit to Bing in a day?
In-depth with Bing Webmaster Tools — the definitive guide
Get up close and personal with the functionality offered in Bing Webmaster Tools in this six-part series.
Robots.txt tip from Bing: Include all relevant directives if you have a Bingbot section
Pay close attention to the directives you give to Bingbot and other search engines in your robots.txt files.
Bing crawling, indexing and rendering: A step-by-step on how it works
Crawlers are technical but understandable thanks to Microsoft's Senior Program Manager Frédéric Dubut's presentation at SMX East.
Bing’s ‘Quest for Intelligent Search’ at SMX East
Search has come a long way and, in a keynote talk Wednesday, Christi Olson and Frederic Dubut painted a picture of what the future might hold.
Bing resolves backlog with its Webmaster Tools URL submission tool
Spammers went from the public Bing URL submission tool to the authenticated version, causing a backlog of URLs that needed to be processed.