Microsoft is testing an updated Bing Search AI answer box powered by Copilot is testing an updated interface, that seems to promote links to publishers more. The links are more publisher-friendly, including showing the full domain name of the publisher and includes the site’s favicon, which helps with branding.
About a month ago, a reader sent me a screenshot of Bing showing this weird search box on its page after you search for Google.
Bing is now testing placing these arrow buttons, in a circle button format, next to the sitelinks.
Microsoft is testing a squared off search bar on the Bing home page. Normally the search bar is curved around the edges but for some reason Bing wants to try a more edged off approach.
Microsoft is testing a new section in Bing Search titled “How to pick.” It helps you figure out what product you should pick, by breaking down the options and configurations.
Microsoft has this “studies of” carousel in the Bing Search results. It can help you find content that helps you prepare for a specialized exam or course, of sorts.
After months of testing, and after Google was the first to make this move, Bing has dropped support for its cache operator and the cache link in Bing Search.
Bing Search can now place a button under a search result snippet that triggers a site command to restrict the search results to only show results from that domain.
We recently spotted Google testing a new e-commerce / shopping card format at the top of the results.
Bing Webmaster Tools shows search data for Bing Search and Yahoo Search but not OpenAI’s ChatGPT search feature. I actually forgot that Bing Webmaster Tools has Yahoo Search data but that was the deal when Yahoo closed Site Explorer in 2011 and I guess that deal still lives on.