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30 Jun
Bing Search Source Favicons Tests Overlay Vs Anchors
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23 Sept
Bing Tests Favicons On Shopping Ads Carousel

Microsoft is testing placing favicons on the Bing shopping ads, product results, carousel. Normally, this ad unit just shows the site name but Bing is testing adding favicons in

REPORT · WHAT · Search Engine RoundtableOPEN STORY
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

REPORT · WHAT · Search Engine RoundtableOPEN STORY
5 Aug
Bing Top Source Search Feature

Microsoft is testing a "Top Source" section within the Bing Search results interface. This section shows the Top Source with various sections from the site or various news

REPORT · WHAT · Search Engine RoundtableOPEN STORY
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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20 Apr
Bing Tests Animated People Also Search For

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

REPORT · WHEN · Search Engine RoundtableOPEN STORY
21 Jul
Bing Tests Open Sitelinks Button In Search

Microsoft Bing is testing an open button that says the site domain and when clicked, shows you sitelinks from that domain on the right side. You can then close out the sitelinks,

REPORT · WHO · Search Engine RoundtableOPEN STORY
19 May
Bing Tests New Fonts, Links & Products Within Copilot Answers

Microsoft is running a number of tests and experiments for Bing Search and the Copilot answers within Bing Search. These tests include font changes, link updates, product results

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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

REPORT · WHAT · Search Engine RoundtableOPEN STORY
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