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Search engines are putting extra effort to keep the internet safe and efficient to use. One of the recent efforts is Bing’s decision to penalise what it calls “inorganic site structures.” The penalty ranges from not ranking the sites prominently to completely delisting them from its index. What is an […]
Bing is making some big changes. The search engine’s last iOS update was only a couple of months ago, with December bringing Bing up to speed by adding third-party app integration, a bar code scanner, and in-store price comparisons to the features on offer. Now for February, Bing has again […]
Bing has come a considerable way since it was unveiled to the world in May 2009 by Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer at the ‘All Things Digital’ conferment taking place in California. That was six years ago, which is like a century in the digital world and in that time Bing […]
The cab booking company Uber has purchased mapping tools from Microsoft Bing, in a bid to reduce its reliance on the Google Maps service. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, warned employees last week that the company would be making some tough decisions in the future, and it appears that mapping […]
Bing has made several improvements to its mobile rewards program to make it easier for users to earn credits while they search, regardless of the device they are using. The new mobile Bing Rewards service will show users their rewards balance and offer suggestions for activities they can perform to […]
As a part of their plans to improve user privacy, Bing plans to start encrypting all search traffic by default as of this summer. Currently, users have the option to choose whether or not they want their search traffic encrypted. This option was introduced about 18 months ago, but many […]
Bing has just announced that it will soon stop displaying phone numbers in plain text. The announcement comes as part of a change to its editorial policy. Currently, phone numbers are displayed in Call Extensions and Location Extensions, as well as directly inside advertisements in the title, body and URL […]
On October 27th, Bing announced that it now recognises emojis as a search term. The announcement was made as part of a blog post by Nick Roberts, the senior program manager at Bing’s Relevance and Intent program. In the post, Roberts noted that mobile devices are ubiquitous and text messaging […]
Bing is currently working on making some extensive improvements to its usability, and one area of focus is image search. The search engine has just revealed its roadmap for improving the image search feature. This roadmap includes several major improvements to make Image Search more intuitive and also to make […]