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A new report claims to have new information on how Microsoft censors content from its Bing search engine in China, including how it bans showing results for certain search terms like "human rights"
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Microsoft has added support in its Bing search engine for the popular Speedtest by Ookla service, which will allow Bing users to quickly check their internet speeds by typing in the term "speedtest".
Microsoft's Bing team has announced a new search feature called Generative AI Captions that will summarize webpage content via GPT 4 with search results. Webmasters can opt out of these features.
The new Turing Bletchley v3 multilingual vision-language foundation model is now being used in Microsoft products, including its Bing search engine for better image searches and more.
In a new blog post, Microsoft's Bing team explains how it keeps up and even improves performance on its site, using data it collects along with development tools to render answers to questions.
Dark mode has been one of the most requested features for both Bing Chat and Bing Search, and now Microsoft has officially started to roll out dark mode on a wide basis to those users.
Officially, Microsoft launched its Bing search engine 14 years ago today, on June 3, 2009. However, Microsoft's latest attempt to take on Google Search was available a couple of days before that date.
Brave Search has announced that its search results are now completely from its own index. It no longer accesses Microsoft's Bing API, which previously generated 7 percent of its results.
A reporter for the Austrian website derStandard points out that Google's agreements for adding the Play Store to Android phones also means they must include Google Search as the default.
Some Bing search users have spotted a new toggle in search results called "Compact View" that when enabled cuts down on the amount of info on a subject but also makes the result less cluttered.
Currently, gift cards can only be redeemed for a few set amounts in the Microsoft Rewards program but now Microsoft is testing a new way to put in your own amount for your gift card.
Our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly is jampacked with news about Microsoft handing out free USBs to Insiders, the integration of AI in even more Redmond products, and pirated Windows (!).
Microsoft is now pushing the Bing desktop search bar, which was previously only seen in Windows 11, to Windows 10 as well. The feature is now available via its latest Edge stable update.
The Featured Answers section of a normal Bing Search may soon be replaced with answers from Bing Chat, along with an improved UI, according to Microsoft's Mikhail Parakhin in a Twitter exchange.
This week's edition of Microsoft Weekly contains interesting news items about ads for Edge, current and upcoming Windows development, and bugs in Microsoft's OS. Find out more in our latest digest!
Following the news that Twitter will begin charging for access to its API, Microsoft has revealed that it will be increasing costs significantly for anyone looking to utilise its Bing Search API.
Microsoft is reportedly looking into integrating artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT into Bing. The move looks to be a way for the software giant to challenge Google's search engine dominance.
Microsoft has quietly pushed a new "Microsoft Bing Service 2.0" update via Windows Update on both 10 and 11 devices. Right now, without official release notes it isn't fully confirmed what it does.
Microsoft is reportedly working on a new translation feature for Bing search queries according to a new report. The feature seems to ask users if they want a search result based on local languages.
Microsoft today announced a bunch of features coming to Edge with version 89, including sleeping tabs, startup boost, and vertical tabs. Bing search is also gaining significant improvements.
Today's Edge Canary update brings the sidebar search feature to the browser. The feature lets users search for context about any text in a webpage from right within a tab, similar to legacy Edge.
Microsoft has released a major update for its Bing Search app on Android, with a new design, "simplified experience", more customization features, and the ability to search and save animated gifs.
Microsoft has released the latest update for its Bing Search app on Android devices, adding new travel features, warnings about malicious sites, improvements to the app's performance, and more.
Microsoft has made changes to its Bing search service that will allow programmers to see API reference information in the search results without having to click through to an MSDN link.
A judge said that Yahoo must continue with its previous agreement with Microsoft to deploy the Bing search engines to Yahoo's sites in Taiwan and Hong Kong, despite a request by Yahoo to slow it down.
Microsoft has announced that when the final version of Windows 8.1 is released, it will include ads inside the search results that are powered by the Bing engine.
Microsoft has again made comments about how it believes that Google is not doing enough to protect the privacy of its users, suggesting at one point Google is "a corporation not wearing deodorant."
Microsoft has announced that it has added a new feature to its Bing search service that lets Pinterest users pin any images found on Bing to their Pinterest boards.
Microsoft has added a new feature to its Bing search service that lets its users view the top search results in the last 24 hours, in the last week or in the last month.
Microsoft reveals some new improvements it has made to its Bing search service that helps users find what they want on the Internet even if they misspell their search term.
Microsoft's Bing division has launched a new look for its users who want to search for images, with larger images instead of small thumbnails and a new “magnifying glass” feature.
Microsoft has revamped how Bing displays its search results with a more stripped down layout that does away with, among other things, a list of related search results to the left side of the layout.
Microsoft's new AI creates super-realistic talking-head deepfakes, and it made Mona Lisa rap
Windows tweaking app WinToys gets a big update with new features and improvements
Windows 10 will soon start nagging you to switch from local account to Microsoft Account
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