While most places you submit website addresses to try and save you from yourself by ensuring that the URL for a business you submit is actually valid and reachable, Bing Places for Business seems to either not have checks in place or they are having code errors on their back end. The invalid URLs, which […]
Bing Now Includes Software Download Numbers and Size of Program
While we have seen both Google and Bing add schema information for apps in the search results, such as the price or mobile OS, Bing is taking this a step further. Bing is now including the file size of downloads, as well as the number of downloads, in their search results. Here is an example […]
Bing Including Foursquare Photos & Tips in Local Knowledge Graph
Bing has started to include information from Foursquare – including photos and “tips” in their local knowledge graph. I spotted this interesting test in Bing where they are showing data from Foursquare in the local version of their knowledge graph. Here is another screenshot taken the day before that shows they rotate the imagery shown […]
Bing Testing Single Line Sitelinks in Organic Search Results
Most are used to seeing sitelinks in the organic search results in the usual two column format, either with descriptions or without. Bing seems to be testing a single line version of it instead. This test also shows the sitelinks with 6 links in the single line, different from the usual 4 we have become […]
Bing Adds Last Updated Dates & View Counts to Search Results
In addition to WikiHow getting tabbed answer boxes in the search results, they are also one of the sites sporting some new annotations in the Bing organic search results. They are now displaying a “last updated” date, as well as the number of times an article has been viewed. If you view one of the […]
Bing Including Entire WikiHow Pages in Search Results Too
Bing recently started testing placing the contents of entire Wikipedia pages in the Bing search results, in a tabbed format. Now they have added WikiHow as a source of these tabbed boxes in the search results. Here is how the WikiHow ones appear, again they are very similar to the Wikipedia one with a pretty […]
Renaming of Bing Webmaster Tools to Bing Search Console Not Planned
One of the questions about Google changing their webmaster support name from Google Webmaster Tools to Google Search Console is whether Bing would follow suit with their own webmaster support product. When Bing launched their own tools and support for webmasters, they followed Google’s lead and named it Bing Webmaster Tools. It also offers similar […]
Bing Adds New Applinks Markup Tester Tool
If you have an app you are making crawlable, Vincent Wehren from Bing has a pretty detailed blog post on the Bing Webmaster Blog today. At first, you may ask yourself: how do I apply my SEO chops to apps? How can I as the web search person help drive app installs through search? Isn’t […]
Bing Putting Entire Wikipedia Pages in Search Results Answer Box Test
Google tends to get flack from webmasters about the usage of snippets in their answer boxes. Bing is definitely taking this a step further by putting the contents of entire Wikipedia sections and pages right on their Bing search result pages. Here is a Bing search for SEO, and the resulting answer box in animated […]
Both Bing Search & Yahoo Search Suffer Outage
If you use either Bing or Yahoo, both services have been down since 2:04 PST on May 14th. Bing is serving no results, while Yahoo – that is powered by Bing Seach – is running no organic results but is including their own shopping results, “____ from Tumblr” section and suggested searches. Bing’s screen says: […]