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Bing Chat Image Creator Now Works In Creative Mode

A few days ago, I reported that Bing Chat has now integrated the Bing Image Creator tool. But the truth is, it was not integrated, not until at least after 4:30 pm ET yesterday, March 23rd. It now works in Bing Chat under “Creative” mode.
I have been trying it every few hours since it launched, and finally, at 4:30 pm ET last night, it began to work. Later last night, Bing even posted a more detailed blog post about this feature.
Here is an image of [a flower in mud] it made for me (click to enlarge):
To compare, this is what MidJourney made for me:
In any event, this was not launched when it was announced but Microsoft’s Mikhail Parakhin did say that on Twitter a few times. He said it on March 22nd, the day after it was announced, “Folks, we are aware that Bing Image Creator is overly restrictive with sensitive queries, had to be on the safe side at launch. As we gather feedback, we will be gradually fixing those issues. And it should be fully coming to Bing Chat tomorrow, fingers crossed.”
He then said it yesterday as well in this tweet:
Shipping today in Creative mode. Please give it a few hours.
— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) March 23, 2023
It going live:
As promised, we shipped image generation in Bing Chat Creative mode today. I find this ability to keep tweaking the image quite addictive. Still not Ingrid Bergman, though 🙂 pic.twitter.com/WZs9oNi4kD
— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) March 24, 2023
Here is a technical quirk about this image creator:
Not yet. As I explained previously, it is quite a bit more expensive, capacity-wise, we want to roll out text understanding and image generation everywhere first.
— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) March 24, 2023
Now it is live – so have fun!
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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Bing Chat Now With Anchor Text Hyperlinks In Answers

Instead of just showing citations in the footer of the response and answers in Bing Chat, Bing is now showing anchor text hyperlinks as responses. In fact, if you watch the answer being built, Bing Chat will create the actual HTML hyperlink.
Here is what the anchor text-based hyperlink looks like in the output of Bing Chat answers:
Shameem Adhikarath spotted this the other day and posted it on Twitter, here is his example:
Noticed that @bing chat results now include direct clickable links alongside reference.
cc:@rustybrick pic.twitter.com/yJr9QUVH8A
— Shameem Adhikarath (@shemiadhikarath) May 29, 2023
I am a fan of this look and implementation – good work Bing!
Update: Brodie Clark said this is not new.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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Early Complaints & Responses On The Google Search Generative Experience

Google began to slowly roll out the Google Search Generative Experience on Thursday and I posted many screenshots of what I found. Since then, Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, responded to some public complaints and criticism of this new search experience. John Mueller of Google also responded to some questions and complaints.
I figured it would be useful to compile those complaints and responses in this story.
Attribution complaints:
I see you noted how in expanded view, the association is even clearer. SGE is an experiment, so this type of feedback is appreciated and helpful as we continue to improve it. Also shared a bit more on linking here https://t.co/x4LLTp0nVH — again, thank you for the feedback.
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) May 27, 2023
Generative responses are corroborated by sources from the web & when a portion of a snapshot briefly includes content from a specific source, we will prominently highlight that source in the snapshot. In this example, the first link matches that & it also shows in expanded view. pic.twitter.com/xPRit5FssA
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) May 26, 2023
It’s the first link to the right of the snapshot. I’ve put a box around it. Also notice the other box at the end. When you see this, you can click through all the corroborating sources without going to expanded mode. pic.twitter.com/AoGoe9uMGJ
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) May 26, 2023
It’s the first link even when you don’t expand. That said, appreciate the feedback. SGE is an experimental experience in Search Labs, and it will evolve over time as we learn what is most helpful.
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) May 26, 2023
Appreciate the feedback, and would encourage you or anyone with access to also make use of the feedback tool that’s part of SGE. It’s an experiment, so the feedback will help us shape it and improve.
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) May 26, 2023
Appreciate the feedback; will pass it on.
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) May 26, 2023
Privacy complaint:
We use queries and other feedback to improve the predictive quality of SGE. But similar to autocomplete, we take steps to prevent any personally-identifiable information that may be contained in a query from being used for model training purposes.
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) May 26, 2023
Timing and location of the roll out:
Country-based roll-outs can be frustrating, sorry! It’s (hopefully) not going to go away, time to be patient :-).
— John Mueller (official) · #StaplerLife (@JohnMu) May 26, 2023
Search Console request:
It’s still early days 🙂
— John Mueller (official) · #StaplerLife (@JohnMu) May 26, 2023
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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Menachem Ani On Google Ads & Structuring Performance Max Campaigns

I went to Menachem Ani’s office, JXT Group, to chat all things paid search. We first spoke about he first got into the Google Ads business, he was doing Google Ads since the early times. He started in the space doing ads for eBay listings, using Froogle and Google AdWords in 2003. We then went off on some of the older days and the community.
In 2009 he started his own agency by doing some freelancing during a recession. It was a challenge, and scary, but it all worked out. And he focuses specifically on Google Ads with a slight focus on e-commerce, performance max, and lead generation. He does also Microsoft Advertising but it is a limited spend in general.
We spoke about how Google Ads has changed over the years and how complex it has grown.
But then we dove directly into how to structure PMax campaigns in Google Ads. Menachem said they like to condense the campaigns as much as possible. They look at the service breakdowns and also look at the goals. That defines how they segment into multiple campaigns. But then within campaigns, they break out asset groups within the product lines. But there is no specific number of campaigns, it depends on the client and what they sell. But the fewer campaigns, the better, he said.
More to come, but to learn more about Menachem Ani follow him @MenachemAni and on LinkedIn.
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