Microsoft Clarity added branded and non-branded query labels, filters, and Share of Authority breakdowns to its AI Citations dashboard in an August 3 update, helping marketers distinguish between AI c…
Bing holds 4.68% of global search and 8.73% in the US as of June 2026, but Microsoft retired every Bing Search API in August 2025, leaving no official way to pull Bing positions programmatically. This…
Microsoft announced Web IQ, a suite of grounding APIs for AI agents, and expanded AI citation reporting in Bing Webmaster Tools, separating AI citations from traditional search rankings. The company s…
Fabrice Canel, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, retired on July 1 after nearly 30 years at the company, citing the Voluntary Retirement Program. Canel led Bing's web crawling and indexing …
Stackra launches a website grader for small businesses that fuses Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, and Google Analytics into a single prioritized fix list. The tool provides a Growth Readi…
A developer discovered that high-quality websites can be invisible to ChatGPT Search due to an eligibility problem, not a content issue. ChatGPT Search uses Microsoft Bing as its primary index, so sit…
Microsoft is rolling out four new features to Bing Webmaster Tools' AI Performance dashboard: Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare. Citation Share shows a site's percentage of all citations fo…
Microsoft released a preview of new AI performance reports in Bing Webmaster Tools, adding Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare features to help publishers understand why their content is surf…
Search visibility in 2026 will operate across three distinct channels: classic search results, direct-answer snippets and voice responses, and AI-generated synthesis that selects which sources to cite…