Bing has re-launched its search engine with a ‘social’ face. In the coming days the users in the United States will see and experience the ‘New Bing’; and the changes will roll out globally in the coming few weeks. Those wanting to experience the changes can head here.
Bing
The Bing search results page has a whole new design. Bing’s new design goes for a de-cluttered clear look so that users can scan results easily without being distracted. The design is a result of Bing’s experiments on the same post user feedback. The clean new look aims for better search experience.
Bing has revealed in a Bing Search Quality Insights blog how the search engine cleans its search results of junk links. This is another information insight in the new series started by Bing to provide users with search quality insights and the workings of Bing.
Bing has taken a clear stance on mobile SEO with its post on the Bing Search Blog. Bing is going ahead with the "one URL per content item" strategy. This means there will be no different URLs for a website for a computer or a mobile phone. In fact they will prefer producing lesser versions of URLs as webmasters will avoid underperforming results this way.
Close on the heels of Google’ "Search Quality Highlights" series launched in December 2011, Bing has now come up with their own "Search Quality Insights" series. This was announced by Bing as a way to provide users with details on the working process of Bing. Following this launch, a comparison between the reasons of why both the search engines are doing it, is quite natural. Let us explore.
Webmasters using the Bing Webmaster Tools can now access the application with additional features. Three new features have been announced by Bing, and this includes the Bing Webmaster Tools API.
- Bing Webmaster Tools API- With this new feature, you can use Bing Webmaster Tools data in other locations quite easily. The prominent exceptions to this are the messaging and keyword research data. Bing adds, “You will need to either login to your account to use the keyword research tool presently, or set up email alerts to see any messages we post to your account.”
Bing has launched a new feature titled Linked Pages. This feature is designed to give users an opportunity to better the search results for their own names as well as that of their friends better and more personalized. Here is what Bing says about it, “With people search being such a high volume pastime, we're taking it a step further letting you have more control in how you show up on Bing. Beginning today, with Linked Pages, we’re letting you link websites related to you in search results. Now your friends looking for you online can find what you want them to find. You can also link pages to your friends to help them shine on Bing as well”
The American choice of celebrities underwent quite some change in the year 2011, as pop star Justin Beiber took the number one place among the most searched people. Bing has released a list of the top searches in 2011, and is a reflection of the collective interest of Americans in the year.
As compared to the 2010 edition, there have been some major changes.
The festive season has kicked off with Thanksgiving, and search engine industry has launched their Thanksgiving logos and themes. Google went ahead and launched its doodle a few days ago. The rest of the engines- Yahoo!, Bing and Ask have also gone live with their logos.
A very happy Thanksgiving to all our readers from PageTraffic!
In an effort to make the users' search experience better, Bing has launched a new search feature called- Editors' Picks. This feature will furnish the users with a list of Editors' Picks for the searched query.
Do not think that the Editors' Picks will have any effect on the ranking or relevance of ordinary search results. The feature will have no impact on ranking at all, in fact, it will offer a different angle on search- those results will be featured that have been chosen by editors rather than any algorithm.
@pagetraffic
