Your managed WordPress might be blocking AI bots and you can’t see it
Your SEO tools show nothing wrong. But platform-level limits may be quietly blocking AI systems from accessing and citing your content.
Topic: Microsoft Azure
Why PPC teams are becoming data teams
Automation and AI are changing PPC roles. Winning teams now control data infrastructure, measurement, analysis, and experimentation.
Google pulls EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft
Google drops its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft after a new EU probe into cloud licensing practices.
Google says verify your cloud hosting provider with Search Console
If you are hosting images, videos or other content on third-party cloud services, you probably want to verify those in Search Console.
Microsoft to end nonprofit ad grant program in December
Microsoft will end its Ads for Social Impact grant program in December, leaving nonprofits to either pause campaigns or pay out of pocket.
Hidden prompt injection: The black hat trick AI outgrew
Invisible prompts once tricked AI like old SEO hacks. Here’s how LLMs filter hidden commands and protect against manipulation.
Log file analysis for SEO: Find crawl issues & fix them fast
Unlock hidden SEO insights with log file analysis. Learn how to track crawler behavior, spot indexing problems, and optimize your site for search engines.
What does ‘Real-Time Marketing’ really mean?
Real-time does not have to mean right now. It’s delivering the information when the end user needs it.
GPT-4 vs. Google Cloud: Performance comparison on 9 SEO tasks
GPT-4 isn't the be-all for SEO automation. Compare its performance to Google Cloud's APIs for text analysis, content transformation and more.
How Search Generative Experience works and why retrieval-augmented generation is our future
Gauge the potential threat level of SGE on your site traffic. Get insights into the likely changes to the search demand curve and CTR model.
Microsoft unveils new AI tools as it looks to ‘transform search and advertising’
The tech giant said it was embarking on a new era of generative AI as it introduced its new ad products at the Surface and Copilot event.
Microsoft Advertising Partner Summit announces video ads, in-browser price comparisons and Facebook import
Plus, Microsoft announces private search for Bing API
Microsoft’s Digital Marketing Center for search and social management adds features, opens beta
The free platform is now open to U.S. small businesses.
Microsoft launches a free Search and Social campaign management platform for SMBs
Digital Marketing Center powers both organic social media and ad campaigns across Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Bing says it has been applying BERT since April
The natural language processing capabilities are now applied to all Bing queries globally.
Microsoft search, LinkedIn revenue growth remains slower than a year ago
Cloud helped the company beat expectations with overall revenues of $33.1 billion in the first fiscal quarter of 2020.
Google beats out Microsoft, Amazon, IBM in image recognition study
Image search recognition is getting pretty good, here is a study that shows how good it is right now.
Bing turns 10: Why it’s been more disruptive than you think
A look back, and ahead, at Microsoft's search business.
Bing upgrades text-to-speech, expands intelligent answers, improves visual search
Check out the latest upgrades made to Bing around voice, image and answer search.
Microsoft execs share plans for making Bing ‘pervasive,’ say search is about to become very different
At an event in Redmond, Microsoft shared its vision of the future in which Bing is at the heart of day-to-day experiences without users even realizing it.
SearchCap: Google Map Maker, Bing Ads Shopping & Search Console Notices
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SEMPO Names 20 Leaders From Locations Around The World To Drive SEMPO Cities Initiative The new leadership will be charged with creating local communities to help educate and support search marketing […]
Microsoft Execs Lay Out Strategy For Growing Bing’s Market Share: “We’re Putting Search Where People Are”
At a Bing Ads Next event in Redmond, Washington yesterday, Microsoft executives outlined the roadmap ahead for Bing and Bing Ads, which powers paid search advertising on both Bing and Yahoo. In discussing the evolution of Bing and the way Micosoft is thinking about search, Rik van der Kooi, Corporate VP, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions […]
Bing Ads Executives Share Plans To Make Bing A Better Ad Platform
Earlier this year, there were questions about where Bing would stand after CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Microsoft’s reorganization plan in July. It turns out the move has been a good one for the search engine. Microsoft chose to give Bing an enterprise-wide embrace. The company is now integrating search into nearly every Microsoft device including […]
This Year, NORAD Tracks Santa With Microsoft & Bing, Not Google
Google has been helping the popular NORAD Tracks Santa site locate Santa Claus on Christmas Eve since 2007. But this year, Jolly St. Nick will be tracked on Bing Maps, not Google. NORAD is also pushing an official Windows 8 app. It part of Microsoft being the new lead partner for the site. NOTE: If […]
Bing Search API No Longer Free
Microsoft announced on the Bing Developer Blog that they are transitioning the Bing Search API over to the Windows Azure Marketplace over the next few months, leading to no longer offering a free version of the Bing Search API. API usage costs for the Bing Search API will cost $40 for up to 20,000 queries […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 18, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 20, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 1, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.