Bing is testing a new feature in their local search results that allows a searcher to save a place when viewing the local knowledge panel for the business in the search results. Once you click on the save place, it changes it to a gold star with “Place saved” text in the knowledge panel instead. […]
AOL Begins to Use Bing Search & Bing Ads for Search Results
AOL has officially switched over their search results and ads to Bing search results with Bing Ads advertising as of January 1, 2016. The deal, which was officially announced back in June 2015, is expected to increase the reach of both their search and their paid ads. There are geographic limits to the change, which […]
Bing Ads Testing “You Have Visited X Times” Annotations in Search Results
Users who have searched Google while logged into their Google accounts likely have seen the “you have visited this site X times” added below some search results. It seems that Bing is testing their own version of this… and are adding it to Bing Ads ads in the search results. I spotted a test in […]
Bing Testing New Smaller Brand Organic / Local Pack Hybrid
Normally when you do a search for a brand on Bing, you see an expanded version of the brand’s organic search results, complete with sitelinks and often with the site search box too. Then you normally see the local pack results placed below in the search results. But Bing seems to be testing a scaled […]
Bing Adds Interactive Search Results for US Presidential Elections
Bing has added some new featured for those following the US elections. When you search for a candidate’s name on Bing, you will be presented with a new interactive feature that details each candidate’s stand on numerous political issues such as immigration reform, gun control and LGBT rights. They highlight how progressive or conservative each […]
Bing Displaying “Popular on Web” Products in Search Results
If you search for a product type without specifying a specific model on Bing, they are now including a new section on the right hand sidebar of the search results highlighting specific models of the product that are popular, which then launches into a product carousel. Here is an example for a search for “VAIO […]
Bing Adds How Many Days Countdown Feature to Knowledge Box
Bing has added a new feature to their knowledge box results at the top of the search results. Now, if someone searches for a specific event or holiday, Bing not only shows the date but also how many days away it is. Here is an example when you search for Valentine’s Day: By comparison, here […]
Bing Testing Larger News Story Thumbnails in Search Results
Bing is drawing more attention to news stories in the search results my including much larger image thumbnails with some news stories. Here is an example: The larger thumbnail is 195 x 195 pixels while the original thumbnail size is 80 x 80. The news stories don’t seem restricted to a particular news sites, as […]
Bing Ads Launches New Black Friday Flyer Ads in Search Results
Bing has added a new ad unit to the top of their search results highlighting the Black Friday flyers of some businesses. The ads highlight the entire flyer with a “view flyer option” along with thumbnails and links to individual items that are on sale for Black Friday. The ad unit also includes when the […]
Bing’s Duane Forrester Announces He is Joining Bruce Clay Inc
Duane Forrester, part of the Bing Webmaster Tools team, recently announced he was leaving Bing and Microsoft but didn’t reveal where we was planning to move to. And now we know… he is joining the team at Bruce Clay Inc. Duane made the announcement during his keynote at State of Search in Dallas, Texas on […]