#Microsoft Bing/Copilot use schema for its LLMs

#Microsoft Bing/Copilot use schema for its LLMs

Fabrice Canel confirmed that Microsoft does use schema markup to help its LLMs learn and understand. Microsoft has confirmed it uses schema markup to help its LLMs (large language models) understand your content. There has been a debate around if AI models and LLMs use schema or structured data, and at least Microsoft has confirmed…

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#Bing Webmaster Tools releases Copilot beta

#Bing Webmaster Tools releases Copilot beta

Microsoft has rolled out Copilot within Bing Webmaster Tools to 10,000 of its top users. Bing Webmaster Tools has rolled out a beta version of Copilot. Copilot in Bing Webmaster Tools allows you to ask questions and it will use Copilot AI to give you helpful and specific answers, based on your specific website and…

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#Bing Webmaster Tools gains recommendations, 16 months of data and previews Copilot integration

#Bing Webmaster Tools gains recommendations, 16 months of data and previews Copilot integration

Recommendations enhances top insights and it previously offered up to 6 months of data. Microsoft announced a number of new features for Bing Webmaster Tools including a new recommendations section, 16 months of data (up from six months) and a limited private preview of Copilot. Recommendations Bing Webmaster Tools is “evolving” its Top Insights section…

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#Bing expands generative search experience and Deep Search

#Bing expands generative search experience and Deep Search

Bing generative search experience now works for informational queries. Microsoft announced a number of updates to Copilot today, specific to Bing Search, its generative search experience and Deep Search features are expanding more with this news. Generative search. Bing said it is now expanding its Bing generative search experience for “informational queries”, such as how-to…

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#Microsoft confirms Reddit blocked Bing Search

#Microsoft confirms Reddit blocked Bing Search

Reddit updated its robots.txt file prohibiting Bing and some other search engines from crawling its site. Reddit has updated its robots.txt file, preventing Bing and many other search engines from crawling the site. “Bing stopped crawling Reddit after they implemented their updated robots.txt file on July 1, which prohibits all crawling of their site,” a…

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#WordPress 6.5 gains lastmod date for sitemaps files

#WordPress 6.5 gains lastmod date for sitemaps files

Google and Bing both encourage sites to include accurate lastmod dates within sitemap files. WordPress version 6.5 now supports including the lastmod element within sitemaps files, which can help search engines understand which pieces of content are new or updated. This can help improve crawl efficiency for search engine crawlers and reduce server load on…

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