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– By Eric Horvitz, Chief Scientific Officer, and Saurabh Tiwary, Corporate VP and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Turing  The AI research community is focusing attention on large language models (LLMs) given their impressive performance with difficult tasks and value in useful applications. The capabilities of the models have stimulated many research questions: How do these models […]

User behavior analysis should be a part of every web master’s duties. Knowing what users do on your website helps you learn what works on your site, what makes them frustrated and how to improve the overall experience. You also need to know what they don’t do, but that you expect them to.  This is

The Microsoft Maps AI Team has detected 47.8M km of all roads and 1.16M km of missing roads from Open Street Maps (OSM). These new roads were detected using Bing Maps imagery collected between 2020 and 2022 including sources from both Maxar and Airbus. The complete set of roads is now available to Bing Maps Users

The web community often asks for SEO best practices for their web sites. Today, we will share a two simple SEO steps helping Search Engines to index subscription-based and paywall content to get more visitors from search engines without compromising the publisher’s economic model. Step #1: Enabling crawling of subscription-based or paywall content The first

We are excited to announce the expansion of Microsoft Rewards! We believe that you can and should get more value out of the searches you perform every day, and we want to bring this value to as many of our users around the world as possible. As of today, users in Japan and 40+ countries

Broadband mapping and technology have improved by leaps and bounds in recent years, particularly in critical sectors like education and healthcare. Unfortunately, not everyone gets access to these tech resources, a form of inequity that is fiercely making its presence known as more schools and offices turn to hybrid methods of learning and working. Mapping

Since day one, Bing has offered webmasters the ability to submit sitemaps URLs anonymous using a HTTP request     http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com/sitemap.xml   Despite its promise, recent evaluations have shown that it was often subject to misuse by spammers. As a result, we will be deprecating the ability for anonymous sitemap submissions starting today. We continue to

The Microsoft Bing team is excited to announce the addition of time- and money-saving annotations to shopping search results. Ever wondered if you were overlooking coupons or special promotions when you shop online? Or perhaps you didn’t even consider that a discount might be available, and you missed out! Bing now provides you with this

If you’re running a website, it’s essential to have a sitemap that helps search engines understand the pages it contains and when they are updated. It’s highly recommended to adopt IndexNow  to instantly inform search engines about latest content changes on your websites. For XML sitemaps, one of the most critical tags that you can