In an AI-powered search world, visibility is responsibility. Bing is rethinking search with safety by design at its core—combining risk detection, trusted content prioritization, and user controls to ensure that when it matters most, suppor?
https://blogs.bing.com/search/May-2026/Keeping-Trusted-Content-Visi...

Did you know that Bing Webmaster Tools treats http and https as the same property, it does not distinguish between http and https? This is different from Google Search Console, which lets you set up a property for each and every variation.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-webmaster-tools-http-and-https-41...

The folks over at Microsoft Bing put together a blog post explaining the differences between indexing for Search versus indexing for Grounding (AI responses) and the differences. Krishna Madhavan, Knut Risvik, Meenaz Merchant from Microsoft?
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-search-indexing-vs-grounding-inde...

It is 2026 and finally Bing Places for Business is finally mobile friendly. Microsoft Bing sent me an email letting me know of this update, saying, "We're excited to share that Bing Places for Business now offers a mobile-responsive experie?
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-places-for-business-mobile-friend...

Microsoft's Bing team published a framework describing how grounding for AI-generated answers differs from traditional search across five measurement areas. The post Bing Team Describes How Grounding Differs From Search Indexing appeared?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/bing-team-describes-how-groundi...

AI search is pushing indexes beyond relevance, with Bing focusing on facts, attribution, and confidence before answers are generated.
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-ai-answers-index-476691

Search indexing was built to help humans decide what to read. Grounding is being built to help AI systems decide what to say and simultaneously helping people to verify, refine, or challenge what the AI system produces. That is the shift -?
https://blogs.bing.com/search/May-2026/Evolving-role-of-the-index-F...

Microsoft, during its earnings call last week, announced that Bing hit a huge milestone of 1 billion monthly active users. Krishna Madhavan from Microsoft later confirmed these "users" do not include AI agents but are real actual humans.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-1-billion-monthly-users-are-human...

This week in search, we are seeing yet again more Google search ranking volatility. Google sent out notifications about back button hijacking penalties to those sites that have the problem. Google AdSense vignette ads may trigger the pena?
https://www.seroundtable.com/video-04-01-2026-41254.html

Microsoft says Bing reached 1B monthly active users, as search ad revenue grew 12% and Edge gained share for the 20th straight quarter. The post Microsoft Says Bing Reached 1B Monthly Active Users appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/microsoft-says-bing-reached-1b-...

Microsoft reported its third quarter 2026 earnings and it showed that its search and advertising revenue was up for 1120% and that means its ad growth is growing again. The previous quarter it was up 10% before that, up 16% and the one befo?
https://www.seroundtable.com/microsoft-bing-earnings-41247.html

Krishna Madhavan from Microsoft Bing demo'ed some new AI reporting features that should launch within Bing Webmaster Tools soon. They include citation share, grounding query intent, semantic topic label, and GEO-focused recommendations.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-webmaster-tools-new-ai-reporting-...

Microsoft previewed four new AI reporting features for Bing Webmaster Tools at SEO Week, including Citation Share and grounding query intent labels. The post Bing Previews AI Citation Share For Webmaster Tools appeared first on Search Engin?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/bing-previews-ai-citation-share...

These include citation share, grounding query intent, and GEO-focused recommendations.
https://searchengineland.com/bing-webmaster-tools-teases-new-ai-rep...

Microsoft Bing is testing making the links within the AI results, the Copilot Search results, less clickable. Typically, the whole line of text is clickable to the citation but here, Bing is testing only linking the citation mark at the en?
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-less-clickable-links-41208.html

The folks at the Internet Archive are having issues with archiving the web. Something it has done since 1996 and is such a foundational website that it is sad to see. That being said, Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing wants to help.
https://www.seroundtable.com/microsoft-indexnow-support-internet-ar...

Microsoft is testing animating the Bing "people also search for" boxes. Bing will run this animated outline around the boxes when it loads, to give it more attention to the searcher.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-animated-people-also-search-for-4...

It looks like Google is testing a new report within Google Search Console named AI contribution. I have no clue what it looks like but I suspect it is a lot like the Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance reports.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-ai-contribution-...

Harrier is a new embedding model series designed for the demands of modern AI systems. It is our latest open-source text embedding model series, delivering state-of-the-art performance and ranking 1st on the multilingual MTEB-v2 benchmark.?
https://blogs.bing.com/search/April-2026/Microsoft-Open-Sources-Ind...

Case study finds that even top brands disappear without a Bing presence. Here’s how ranking in Bing boosts visibility in ChatGPT.
https://searchengineland.com/bing-ranking-chatgpt-visibility-study-...

Bing is testing a double-rowed sponsored product carousel that could hand Microsoft Shopping advertisers a significant visibility boost.
https://searchengineland.com/bing-is-testing-a-much-larger-sponsore...

Microsoft is at it again with its sponsored labels tests. This time, Microsoft is testing almost transparent sponsored labels within the Bing search results. The labels are super grayed out and super hard to see.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-transparent-sponsored-label-41131...

Enhanced mapping accuracy worldwide: Bing Maps completes the global rollout of TomTom Orbis Addresses, with Orbis data now live worldwide — improving coverage, precision, and freshness.
https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2026-03/Bing-Maps-Goes-Global-with-Tomt...

Bing is testing a new AI-based recommendations section in the Shopping Tab. Bing adds this block to the top of the results, and shows AI-citations at the top right.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-shopping-ai-based-recommendations...

Bing spotted testing more listings in the sponsored product section at the top of its results.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-tests-larger-product-ads-format-o...

This week we covered the release of the Google March 2026 core update that rolled out this morning and will take about two weeks to finish. We also covered Google March 2026 spam update that launched on March 24th and finished 19.5 hours la?
https://www.seroundtable.com/video-03-27-2026-41120.html

Microsoft Bing is testing using rounded corners on short videos and normal videos within the Bing search results interface. Bing used to show these as squared-off edges.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-rounded-corners-videos-41106.html

Bing now lets you click a query to view cited pages or a page to see its grounding queries, with multiple queries and pages linked together.
https://searchengineland.com/bing-webmaster-tools-query-page-mappin...

In February, Bing rolled out new AI Performance reports within Bing Webmaster Tools. Bing announced a new feature for this report that connects the Grounding Queries and Pages views within the AI Performance report.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-webmaster-tools-ai-performance-mo...

Bing's AI Performance dashboard now maps grounding queries to cited pages, letting you connect AI citation data to specific URLs on your site. The post Bing AI Dashboard Maps Grounding Queries To Cited Pages appeared first on Search Engine?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/bing-ai-dashboard-maps-groundin...

Microsoft seems to be testing a new AI-powered image search interface and result set for Bing Image Search. If you do a search on Bing Images, on the right side you may see a button for "New Version." That new version says you can "try a ne?
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-new-ai-image-search-41094.html

The Microsoft Rewards Total Prize Drop is officially underway, and it’s bringing the biggest rewards yet. For a limited time, Microsoft Rewards members can enter for a chance to win a $1,000,000 USD cash grand prize or one of three customiz?
https://blogs.bing.com/search/March-2026/You-could-unlock-your-shar...

In SEO Pulse: AI Overview citations drift further from traditional rankings as AI search expands and platforms clarify how content appears in AI answers. The post AIO Citations Diverge From Rankings, Bing Rewrites Rules – SEO Pulse appeared?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/seo-pulse-aio-citations-diverge...

Microsoft is testing a "Go to Shopping" button within the Bing Search results. This is instead of the narrower shopping section that shows shopping results by just says "see all."
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-go-to-shopping-button-40990.html

A few years ago, Microsoft Advertising the support of Asian owned labels and attributes on its search ads within Bing. Google has a similar attribute, by the way. Honestly, I've never seen the label on Bing, until now.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-asian-owned-labels-40995.html

Bing rewrote its webmaster guidelines to cover Copilot grounding, meta directive controls for AI answers, and a softened stance on AI-generated content. The post Bing Adds GEO To Official Guidelines, Expands AI Abuse Definitions appeared f?
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/bing-adds-geo-to-official-guide...

This week...
https://www.seroundtable.com/video-02-27-2026-41003.html

Microsoft Bing Search is testing a new layout for videos within the search results. Instead of a list view, Bing is testing a two-by-two grid layout.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-video-grid-layout-40945.html

Microsoft has updated the design of the Bing Webmaster Guidelines section and changed some of the verbiage. I think overall these are smaller updates, but I have not gone through every single change to double-check as of yet.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-webmaster-guidelines-updated-4100...

Microsoft Advertising is testing an update to the shopping ads carousel that can show multiple images in a single card. Essentially, you are seeing a carousel within a carousel for Bing shopping ads.
https://www.seroundtable.com/microsoft-advertising-muti-image-shopp...