Bing has announced that they are launching their own mobile friendly algorithm for Bing searches coming from mobile devices. Last month, Google began giving a boost to mobile friendly web pages in their own search results for searches done from a mobile device. So it’s not surprising that Bing is following the lead to include […]
Bing Search Testing Reminders When You’ve Visited a Webpage
Bing is adding reminders in their search results when you have previously visited a webpage. This is similar to a feature Google has, which most often appears to users using Google Now. This type of feature always has mixed results, as some people find it useful, while others find it on the creepy side, since […]
Bing Is Testing a New Site Search in Search Results
It looks like Bing is following Google’s lead and adding a site search bar below some listings in the Bing Search Results. When you search using the “search results from _____” search box, it then returns a list of Bing results using site:example.com. Bing did a test of this a couple of years ago, but […]
Bing Showing Most Recent Facebook Post in Company Knowledge Graphs
Bing has begun showing the most recent Facebook post made by a company when displaying the company’s knowledge graph. Here is an example where Bing is displaying Target’s most recent Facebook post in their knowledge graph. And here are a few more examples. It is interesting that Bing is giving this prominent placement to Facebook, […]
Bing Testing Search Results with Ten Sitelinks for a Single Listing
I was doing some random searches on Bing when I came across this massively large organic search result. It featured ten different site links – all with descriotion also included for each one – in the Bing organic search results. Usually when it comes to sitelinks, search engines tend to play it on the side […]
Bing Adds Boxes to Search Results to Highlight Popular Pages on Site
Bing is running another test in their search results which highlights what they view as important links – such as Login, Contact Us & Menu pages. They appear to the right of the site links for the organic search listing, with a shaded box surrounding each one. When you click on the page, it takes […]
Bing Search Adds Customer Service Phone Numbers to Search Results
Bing Search is testing the addition of a customer service phone number that appears in grey – similar to other annotations – and is displayed beneath the title and URL, but above the page description. These are appearing on the organic (non-paid) search results. This should make it much easier for people searching for a […]
Your Real Ad Extension’s Performance with Segmented Reporting in PPC
When operating within paid search, one of the greatest benefits we have is our data. We can slice and dice our performance by target, term, location, device, message, time, and on and on. And when we find ourselves incapable of accessing this magnitude of information, it can be a bit of a shock. One Google […]
Emojis Begin Showing Up in Bing Searches Too
Last week, we first noticed emojis being used to draw attention to organic search results in the Google search results. At the time, they were not showing up in Bing search results for the titles, only the descriptions, but they are now starting to show up. There are also more results with the emojis showing […]
Emojis Showing Up in Google Search Results for Competitive Searches
When emojis were first spotted in the Google desktop search results, we knew it wouldn’t be long before someone would be testing them out. And Expedia seems to be the first one people noticed who is testing this in live search results. Barry Schwartz posted about two emojis Expedia is running, but they are actually […]