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Bing Tests Open Sitelinks Button In Search

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21 Jul
Bing Tests Open Sitelinks Button In Search
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20 Oct
Bing Tests Not Showing Sitelinks

Microsoft seems to be testing not showing sitelinks under the main Bing search result snippets. I am honestly not sure if this is new but I was able to replicate Bing showing

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16 Oct
Bing Search Testing Popular Links On Snippets

Microsoft is testing adding the label "Popular Links" to the Bing search results sitelinks. This reminds me of the Google top pages test and variations of that.

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16 Oct
Bing Tests Read More Links In Search Result Snippets

Microsoft is testing placing "read more" links within the Bing Search result snippets, like Google officially did a year or so ago. I am able to replicate this on some browsers,

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2 Sept
Bing Tests Search Result Snippets Without Site Names

Microsoft is testing removing the site names from the Bing search results and instead showing only the site's URL. Google tested this about a year ago, so I guess it makes sense

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30 Jun
Bing Search Source Favicons Tests Overlay Vs Anchors

Microsoft Bing is testing having the source favicons at the top of the search results page work as an overlay box with more links. Previously, when you clicked on an icon it would

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16 Sept
Bing Tests Shopping Filters On Left Sidebar

Microsoft Bing is testing adding product/shopping related filters on the left sidebar of the search results. This makes the Bing all search tab look more like Google's all tab,

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27 Apr
Bing Tests Less Clickable Links In Copilot Search Results

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

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