Thursday, 21 Nov 2024
Category: Bing

Bing supports rel=sponsored & rel=ugc

You can use the rel=”nofollow” or rel=”sponsored” or rel=”ugc” attributes, to “prevent the links from being followed by a crawler and from potentially impacting search rankings. A new tidbit found in the updated Bing Webmaster Guidelines is that Bing now supports rel=”sponsored” and rel=”ugc” attributes on your links. This is in addition to Bing supporting the rel=”nofollow” […]

Bing brings visual search to product ads

Currently available for clothing and shoes, users can upload an image or click on a product result to shop for visually similar items. Bing has added new visual search features to its sponsored Shopping results, the company announced Thursday. Users can click on the visual search icon in the Shopping search bar or in a product result […]

LiveRamp brings its search targeting to Bing Ads A year aft

A year after offering its people-based search targeting through Google, the data provider is now providing a similar service for the Bing search engine. Almost exactly a year ago, data onboarding and identity resolution provider LiveRamp announced a new people-based search targeting service for IdentityLink. The first effort for that service was designed for Google’s Customer Match. […]

Microsoft Office hits pause on forcing Bing search in Chrome, Firefox

Rather than automatically changing default search engines for Chrome and Firefox, administrators are required to opt-in for it to do so network-wide. Microsoft recently announced a new “extension” as part of an update to its Office 365 ProPlus software that forcibly changes company-wide Chrome and Firefox search engine defaults to Bing search, automatically, from what is likely […]

Local businesses can solicit GoFundMe donations via Bing Places

The donate feature is currently available for new GoFundMe campaigns, with support for existing fundraisers coming in the next few weeks. Bing has partnered with crowdfunding platform GoFundMe to facilitate donations to local businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the search engine announced Monday. Bing Places for Business account owners can set up a fundraiser through GoFundMe […]

DuckDuckGo, Info.com crowd out Bing in Google’s Android search options

The auction results are in: Bing will only appear in the UK, but DuckDuckGo and Info.com will be choices in all territories. Google has announced which search engines will appear on its default search provider screen for Android users in the EU. Bing will appear as an option in the United Kingdom only, while DuckDuckGo […]