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Hints of more improvements to come. The Bing Ads apps on iOS and Android are steadily becoming more and more useful for actual management, not just monitoring (and outpacing AdWords apps in functionality). In June, Bing Ads gave users the ability to edit text ads from its iOS and...

Over six weeks after Google launched their form for Europeans who want to make their Right To Be Forgotten request, Microsoft Bing has launched theirs over here. The form does differ from Google’s but both Google and Bing, as well as other search engines, have the obligation to...

Bing is testing several new interfaces for their search results. The tests interface includes moving the top navigation below the search box, using yellow lines above or on the left side of the navigation menus and/or gray arrows integrated with the top box above. The current...

At Search Marketing Expo, Bing’s Vincent Wehren, the Lead Program Manager for Bing Webmaster Tools, said they have no plans on ever giving a ranking boost to websites that switch to HTTPS. In August, Google began giving sites that use HTTPS a ranking boost as a bit of an...

App extensions will be available to advertisers on Bing Ads starting next spring. Timed to coincide with the removal of explicit mobile OS targeting, app extensions will be targeted automatically to a user’s OS and device. The extensions will feature an app’s icon and a...

Bing Ads has already announced the switch to include close variants on Exact Match and Broad Match Modifier keywords. Now Phrase Match keywords will also get the close variants treatment. With close variants, ads trigger on search queries that closely resemble the keyword —...

Bing is now using a carousel format for their local search results user interface. If you search Bing for local related queries, such as pizza, you will see local results placed in a black bar, that you can navigation through, to find local pizza stores. Here is a picture: Bing...

Office Word Online adds Bing Insights to your document creation process. Bing announced on the search blog and the Office blog that they’ve integrated Bing search deeper into their online Office Word product. Office Word Online has a new feature named “Insights,” which is powered...

Bing sources data from National Center for Missing & Exploited Children databases for their new AMBER alert box. Bing has added AMBER alerts to their search answer box at the top of the search results. Bing announced that this feature was added yesterday “to help increase...

Bing’s search results include original content and almost anything a fan would need to know before the game starts. That’s what it looks like if you do a search for “super bowl” on Bing. (You can click the image to see a bigger version if it helps. I’ll be commenting on the...