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Tips For Avoiding Misinformation In SEO Resources & Conversations
There are many contradictory ideas about the best way to approach SEO.
For every idea proposed, there are others in the SEO industry who disagree.
Turning to Google for help isn’t always helpful because Google ranks information about SEO that Googlers themselves are on record saying is wrong.
There is a way to cut through the noise and figure out which information is likely valid and which information is smoke and mirrors.
Googlers Statements On SEO Information
What Googlers say about SEO is generally limited to four topics:
- Actions to avoid a negative outcome.
- How to increase indexing.
- How to help Google better understand your webpages.
- Confirmation that site promotion is important.
Googlers don’t offer loopholes for how to influence rankings, of course. But the information they do provide is useful and consistent.
For example, a Googler can’t necessarily say that Google has an algorithm that’s specifically for hunting down and killing guest posts for SEO links.
But they can advise that guest posting for SEO is done and that publishers should stick a fork in it.
By doing that, the Googler is helping publishers avoid a possible penalty or spending money on a service that won’t produce the desired results.
It makes sense to seek out what Googlers say. What Googlers say is literally the most authoritative statement about how Google works.
Why Google Has A Webmaster Outreach
The whole reason why there is a Webmaster outreach is that former Googler Matt Cutts sees value in communicating with the search community to help them avoid mistakes and misinformation.
So, he began communicating with publishers at various SEO forums under the nickname, GoogleGuy.
Here’s a post from 2004 where GoogleGuy introduced himself and explained the origin of Google’s outreach and his motivation:
“About three years ago, I was waiting for a program to finish compiling, and I was reading what people online were saying about Google.
I remember seeing a question from a site owner about how to structure his site for better crawling, and thinking it would be great if a Googler could just pop by to answer technical questions like that.
And then I thought, I’m a Google engineer. I can answer technical questions like that. So, I did.
Since then, I’ve managed to post around 2,000 messages in various web forums, setting the record straight whenever possible.”
Are Googlers Inconsistent?
It’s common to hear people complain that Google is contradictory. If that’s true, how can you trust what Googlers say is not SEO misinformation?
But, the reason for the contradictions is usually not the Googler’s fault. It’s consistently the fault of the person who is writing about what the Googler said.
In my experience of several years of listening to the Google office-hours hangouts, Googlers are very consistent about what they say, even when you backtrack 10 or more years to previous statements, what they advise is consistent and not contradictory.
Paying attention to what Googlers say has always been a good practice. And if what a publication reports seem to contradict a previous statement, listen to the statement itself.
For example, there are some sites that post about ranking factors based on what an ex-Googler says in a video.
But when you listen to the video, the ex-Googler never said what people say that he said.
Even so, the erroneous statement about a false ranking factor keeps proliferating on the internet because no one stops to listen to the video.
Don’t take what someone writes for granted.
Always check the video, blog post, or podcast for yourself.
Google Search Engine Is A Source Of SEO Misinformation?
While Googlers are a trusted source of SEO information, Google itself can be an unreliable source of SEO information.
Here’s an example of Google’s John Mueller debunking LSI Keywords in a tweet:
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Screenshot from Twitter, May 2022
Searching Google for SEO information yields inconsistent search results.
For example:
- Searching for LSI keywords (which Mueller above says doesn’t exist) shows several websites that say that LSI keywords do exist.
- Searching PBN links (links on blogs) yields a top-ranked page that sells PBN links.
- Searches for “Link Wheels” (building blogs and linking to your own content) yields results that recommend the practice.
In general, the top search results about SEO topics tend to be fairly reliable nowadays.
Google tends to show search results that promote risky strategies if you search for risky strategies (like link wheels or PBN links).
Sometimes it might be more helpful to find an SEO forum or Facebook Group and ask a real person (instead of an algorithm) for information about SEO.
Should You Ignore What Googlers Say?
Googlers are on their side of the search engine and publishers/SEOs are on the other side. We both experience search differently.
So, it makes sense that there are differences in opinions about some topics, particularly about what is fair and what is relevant.
However, there are some areas of the internet where it is commonly held that it’s best to not listen to what Googlers say.
Some consistently advise others to literally do the opposite of what Googlers say.
Others appear to have a grudge and offer consistently negative opinions on the topic of Google.
Then, there are news stories about Google AI researchers who were fired after raising ethical concerns.
Should Google Be Believed?
It’s helpful to focus on the Googlers who liaison with the search marketing community.
Googlers like Gary Illyes and John Mueller have a long history of sharing high-quality information with the search marketing community.
The record of all the information they shared is on YouTube, Twitter, and on Google blog posts.
When John Mueller is uncertain about an answer to a question, he says so. When he is certain, his answer is unambiguous.
Danny Sullivan used to be a search marketing reporter before joining Google.
He is on our side, and he, too, has a solid track record of answering questions, passing along concerns, and responding to concerns in the search community, like publishing an article about Core Algorithm Updates in response to questions about what they are and how publishers should deal with them.
In general, be wary of anyone who consistently advises people to ignore what Google says.
Discern Between Opinion And Fact-Based Insight
It’s important to verify if the writer is citing and linking to an authoritative source or is simply offering an opinion.
When someone writes about Google and then links to supporting evidence like a Googler statement, a patent, or research paper, their statement becomes better than an opinion because now it’s a fact-based insight with supporting evidence.
What they write might still not be true about Google, but at least there is supporting evidence that it could be true.
Unless a Googler says something is true, we can’t really know.
So, the best anyone can do is to point to a Googler statement, a research paper, or a patent as supporting evidence that something might be true.
For centuries, common sense dictated that the earth was at the center of the universe. Common sense is not a substitute for evidence and data.
Opinions without supporting evidence, regardless of how much “sense” it makes, are unreliable.
Googler Statements Must Be In Context
Some people have agendas. When that happens, they tend to cite Googler statements out of context in order to push their agendas.
The typical agenda consists of sowing fear and uncertainty for the purpose of creating more business.
It’s not uncommon for search marketers to say that Googlers contradict themselves.
I find that Googlers are remarkably consistent, especially John Mueller.
What is inconsistent is how some people interpret what he says.
Google’s John Mueller lamented in a podcast that “two-thirds of what he is quoted as saying is misquoted or quoted out of context.”
Correlation Studies Are Not Reliable
Articles featuring correlation data tend to attract a lot of attention, which makes them useful for clickbait.
Data obtained from studying any number of search results, even millions of search results, will always show patterns.
But the patterns are meaningless because… correlation does not imply causation.
Correlation studies often look at one or a handful of factors in isolation, ignoring all the other more than 200 ranking factors that influence search rankings.
Correlation studies also tend to ignore non-ranking factors that influence the search results such as:
- Prior searches.
- Geolocation.
- Query reformulation.
- User intent.
- Multiple intents in the search results.
The above are just factors that can muddy up any attempt to correlate what ranks in the search results with any one particular quality of a webpage.
If you want to avoid SEO misinformation, consider avoiding most, if not all, correlation-based SEO research.
Can You Trust What’s In A Patent?
The problem with articles written about patents is that some people don’t know how to interpret them – and that can result in SEO misinformation.
The way a patent can result in misinformation is that the person making claims about it uses just one section of a patent, in isolation, pulled out of the context of the rest of the patent.
If you read an article about a patent and the author does not discuss the context of the entire patent and is only using one passage from the patent, it’s highly likely that the conclusions drawn from the patent are misinformed.
A patent or research paper should always be discussed within the context of the entire patent.
It’s a common mistake to pull one section of the patent and derive conclusions from that section taken out of context.
SEO Misinformation
It can be tough discerning between good SEO information, outright lies, and pure misinformation.
Some misinformation happens because the information was not double-checked, and it ends up spreading across the internet.
Some misinformation happens because some people put too much trust in common sense (which is unreliable).
Ultimately, we can’t know for certain what’s in Google’s algorithm.
The best we can do is understand that SEO information has tiers of validity, beginning at the top with publications from Google that offer confirmation about what’s in Google’s algorithm, then statements from Googlers. This is information that can be trusted.
After that, we get into a sort of gray zone with patents and research papers that are unconfirmed by Google whether or not they’re being used.
The least trustworthy tier of information is the one based on correlation studies and pure opinions.
When I am in doubt, what I do is seek a reality check from people I trust.
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What Are the Benefits of SEO? (And How to Get Started)
If you are a business owner, you may have heard about how vital search engine optimization (SEO) is. But how can it help fast-track your business’s growth, get more customers, and make a difference to your bottom line?
In more simple terms: Why do SEO?
There are an estimated 3.5 billion searches on Google each day. To tap into this audience, you’ll need to do SEO.
One of the key benefits of SEO is increasing your organic share of voice (SOV). More organic SOV means more traffic, leads, and revenue for your business.
It also means more market share in your industry. We can see from the graph below that there is a strong relationship between SOV and market share.
At Ahrefs, we calculate organic SOV by dividing the traffic to the site by the total search traffic for all keywords.
In other words, if you only track one keyword and the top 10 positions are occupied by pages of your website, your SOV is 100%.
So how can you measure organic SOV?
We first need to create a new project in Ahrefs’ Rank Tracker and add our keywords for the website we want to track.
Once you have added a new project and added your keywords, you can go to the dashboard and check your SOV.
It should look something like this:
If you click through the SOV on the dashboard, you can look at your competitor’s SOV compared to your SOV.
If no competitors are showing in your dashboard, you can change that by:
- Going into Settings.
- Clicking on the Competitors tab.
- Clicking on + Add competitor.
Enter your competitors manually or press the + to add them from the list below that shows the keyword intersection.
Once you are happy, click the Save button and return to the dashboard. You should now be able to compare your competitor’s SOV against your website’s SOV.
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Intrusive marketing is annoying.
It may seem obvious. But when our lives are full of adverts, cold calls, and emails from random people trying to sell you their products all the time, it’s very advantageous to be an inbound marketing channel.
SEO targets people who are actively searching for your services or products.
Because of this, it’s excellent at converting—all you need to do is focus on what they are searching for.
You can find what your customers are searching for using Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer.
Enter a relevant topic and go to the Matching terms report. Here, you’ll see many topics your customers are searching for, which you can target.
You can search, discover, and analyze keywords using our very own Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer.
SEO is not just for Christmas.
In all, 45.6% of SEOs say SEO takes about three to six months. It may seem like a long time for the channel to work, but SEO is a long-term marketing channel where growth typically compounds over time. In other words, if you put the time and effort into SEO, the results will likely be well worth it.
Looking at Ahrefs’ organic traffic graph, most of our rapid growth occurred in the last year or so when our traffic started to compound.
Google’s algorithm updates mean that your website’s traffic will fluctuate. But as you can see from the graph, it’s a positive trend in the long term.
Over time, you should be able to rely on SEO to bring in a constant stream of traffic to your site.
When we asked ~4,300 SEOs how long SEO takes, they gave a variety of responses. But only 16.2% of SEOs said that SEO takes between one and three months.
I agree with the majority of SEOs here. But I would add a qualifier—that it depends on the type of website you are working on.
For example, if you set up a brand-new website, it will have little to no authority. This is because it will have no links pointing to it and will probably have minimal content on the site.
These elements are just some indicators or ways in which Google judges your website’s authority and decides which top results should be on its SERPs.
Recommendation
If you are improving the SEO of a website that’s been around for a few years, then the SEO will likely take effect faster. This is based on my experience, but you may get different results with your website.
Unlike paying for PPC, organic search traffic is free.
If Ahrefs used PPC to pay for its organic traffic, Ahrefs’ Site Explorer estimates it would cost an eye-watering $2.3 million per month or $27.6 million per year.
You can see from this example why improving SEO and increasing your organic traffic can be a highly valuable investment for your business.
Getting started with SEO doesn’t always mean you have to spend a lot, either. If you are willing to learn about SEO basics, you can do a lot of the work yourself to bring costs down.
Recommendation
It’s always on—24/7
Unlike paid marketing, SEO is always on. It continues to work for you while you are asleep.
You’ll get more overall value from SEO than other marketing channels. It doesn’t cost any extra to have it running all the time.
Another benefit is that once your website is established with good rankings, SEO will maintain them over time and drive consistent traffic to your website.
The only thing that can stop this is if there is a serious technical issue with your site or you have fallen foul of Google’s search guidelines.
Reduce your dependency on PPC
It’s easy for a business to rely on pay-per-click (PPC) marketing, but it can be expensive to maintain this marketing strategy.
SEO can help you change this.
Once you have some important keywords ranking number #1 on Google, you can consider turning off some of your PPC marketing, which could result in significant savings for your business.
Many people have high expectations for websites these days. They expect them to be clear, intuitive, and lightning-fast.
When websites don’t work as people expect, they get frustrated. And if they have a bad experience, this can create a negative perception of the brand.
To do well in SEO, you’ll need to provide your visitors with the best possible user experience.
But how can you optimize for user experience in SEO?
SEOs typically divide user experience issues into three categories:
- Site speed
- Core Web Vitals
- On-site optimization
Let’s take a closer look.
Site speed
Site speed is one of the most critical factors for your visitors. If your website is slow to use, visitors will likely leave your site and probably not return.
A few years ago, Google tested 900,000 websites worldwide. It reported that 53% of people would leave a website if it took three seconds or more to load.
To test your site speed, you can use a tool like webpagespeedtest.org. Let’s take a look at Ahrefs speed metrics using this tool.
We can see above that the speed index is under three seconds for Ahrefs. If your website loads in more than three seconds, then you may want to consider speeding up your website.
Core Web Vitals
Core Web Vitals are Google’s quality signals it introduced to quantify the user experience of your website.
They are:
- Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) – For load performance.
- First Input Delay (FID) – For visual stability.
- Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) – For interactivity.
Here’s what Google classifies as good and bad scores for these metrics.
| Good | Needs improvement | Poor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| LCP | <=2.5s | <=4s | >4s |
| FID | <=100ms | <=300ms | >300ms |
| CLS | <=0.1 | <=0.25 | >0.25 |
Defining metrics for user experience is a benefit, as website owners can know exactly how their websites perform against Google’s expectations.
Monitoring Core Web Vitals and site performance may sound technical, but you can keep an eye on them using Ahrefs’ Site Audit.
For example, here’s a screenshot from the Performance dashboard highlighting two issues with CLS and LCP.
As you can see from the above, Site Audit automatically identifies all low-performing pages for you.
On-page optimization
On-page optimization is another area of SEO that can help benefit your website. With on-page optimization, SEOs critically examine your website and audit it for any issues that may impact the user experience.
A good example of on-page optimization is adding subheadings, or heading tags, to your articles. Adding subheadings makes your content easier to read by establishing a visual hierarchy.
On-page optimization is less quantifiable than Core Web Vitals, but spending time on it will pay dividends for your website in the long run.
Ahrefs’ Site Audit can monitor headings, image alt text, internal linking, and other on-page optimization factors.
Here’s an example of a scheduled report you can get for heading optimization opportunities.
You can use this report to identify many improvement opportunities for your website.
If your business has a physical store, you can add it to a Google Business Profile for free.
Adding your business to Google’s business listings means you will appear on Google Maps when someone searches for your business or related keywords.
It’s a great way to highlight your business locally. For some businesses focused on local trade, this listing can be one of their most crucial organic search assets.
It also gives you a helpful way to communicate your business hours and opening times to your customers—something they will appreciate.
By having a solid organic presence and utilizing tools such as Google Business Profile, you can be sure that your online business will pick up sales even when you can’t open your physical store.
So how do you set up your own Google Business Profile listing?
Setting up a Google Business Profile is straightforward and a three-step process.
- Claim your business profile
- Add your business hours and details
- Manage your profile, share any business updates, and respond to customer reviews
Once you have done this, you can monitor your business profile’s performance with the built-in analytics.
Using a Google Business Profile allows you to discover how people are searching for your website and helps you to understand how your business connects with customers online.
Building trust with customers is just as important online as it is offline. You wouldn’t buy something from a physical shop if the shop was run-down and the service was poor.
The same applies to websites.
Your website should be fully operational and perform well in search engines. It should be secure and provide a great user experience to your customers.
Having good SEO on your website shows you’re an authority in your industry. It shows you have the information and expertise customers are looking for.
It also means searchers will click on your website in the results because it is more prominent than your competitors—you will get the customers, and they won’t.
The bottom line here is that by improving your website’s SEO, more visitors will trust your brand, which will drive more traffic and sales.
Learn more
Now you know the key benefits of SEO, you may want to start learning about it in more detail.
I’ve collected some helpful resources below to help you get started, so you can learn about SEO and start to reap the benefits:
Got more questions? Ping me on Twitter. 🙂
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How To Get More Traffic By Fixing Keyword Cannibalizations
This post was sponsored by DinoRANK. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own.
Google is a great source of qualified and recurring traffic for your business – that’s a fact.
Many people say that the key to SEO success is to establish yourself as an authoritative source for all the keywords in your industry, even niche keywords.
Unfortunately, your competition is doing the same thing. In some cases, you may even be competing with yourself.
Everyone is creating the same content to rank high on Google. So, you need to set yourself apart.
Your competition may be using the same niche keywords as you, but are they optimizing their domain’s SEO by cleaning up cannibalized content and keyword cannibalization?
They may not be; so, this is a great way to propel your website to the top of Google.
What Is Keyword Cannibalization In SEO?
As you may know, sometimes two or more URLs on the same domain may rank for the same keyword or group of keywords.
When this happens, Google does not know which piece of content to show on search engine results pages (SERPs).
When these URLs compete for the same search terms, it is called SEO cannibalization.
How Cleaning Up Cannibalization Can Instantly Boost Your Rankings
When you and your competition are ranking for the same keywords, yet your position on SERPs is lower, you may have a cannibalization issue.
If your content is cannibalizing itself, you not only have to fight your competitors for a top position – you also have to fight your own pages.
There’s enough competition out there without having it at home, right?
Cannibalization is a detrimental factor when URLs compete with each other. They can even harm your domain authority if there are too many of them, especially if you haven’t told Google that there is a clear difference between two similar pieces of content.
As you can see, cannibalizations have a negative influence on your domain’s SEO.
To solve the cannibalization problem, we must first know how to find them.
How To Find Cannibalization On Your Website
There are different ways to find cannibalization on your domain:
- The Manual Way
- The Easy Way
How To Find Cannibalized Keywords By Hand
There are two ways to locate content and keyword cannibalization without using a tool:
- Use a rank tracker or Google Search Console to see which positions your pages are ranking in the search results, as well as the keywords they are ranking for; then, find matching URLs for the same keywords.
- Review your site’s content manually to see if there are several pages that address the same topic or include the same keywords. Then, go to Google and search for that keyword you suspect you are cannibalizing and check if you really do it or not; this can also help you prevent it from happening.
How To Locate Keyword Cannibalization With A Single Click
Using DinoRANK, you can simply click one button and instantly see all your cannibalized content.
All you’ll need to do is create a project in the tool, and sync it with your Google Analytics and Google Search Console account. DinoRANK does the rest.
See what content is cannibalized on your website now →
Now, once you have located all the cannibalizations that affect your website, what decision should you make?
What Is The Best Way To Fix Cannibalization?
Once you have found the cannibalizations on your website, you can take these steps to solve the problem:
- Join or merge two URLs into one.
- Make a 301 redirect.
- Make a shift in focus to one of the two contents and de-optimize or optimize for the word that it cannibalizes.
- Place a canonical tag in one of the two URLs.
- Remove one of the two contents if you consider it thin content or duplicate content.
How Do I Pick The Best Method?
What analysis should you do when facing cannibalization to perform the most optimal action?
Let’s say that you have 2 URLs of the same domain that are positioned for the same keyword; 1 URL is in position 5, and the other URL is in position 7 on the SERPs.
In this case, you should:
- Check the content of both pages to see if they are addressing the same topic or include the same keywords. If so, they are probably competing with each other and causing cannibalization.
- Review the page authority of each page, as measured by the number of inbound links, quality of links, site structure, etc. The page with higher authority will likely perform better in search results.
- Check the traffic received by each page to see which one is receiving more visits, and analyze which URL is responding better to the search intention of that or those keywords.
- Check the conversion rates of each page to see which is generating more sales or conversion actions.
Once the analysis is done, you will have enough elements to recognize what action you should take in each cannibalization.
Still not sure?
Don’t worry. DinoRANK will show you recommendations on how to proceed, depending on the case.
Screenshot from DinoRANK.com, January 2023Usually, content is consolidated into one of the two cannibalized URLs (the one with higher authority or higher traffic), and the discarded URL should become a 301 redirect.
The impact of this repair is usually positive in a very high number of cases.
Although if both contents fulfill their function (for example, one URL belongs to the product card and the other to a blog post), a better option would be to optimize or de-optimize the content as appropriate or choose to implement a canonical tag to one of the URLs to indicate to search engines which is the main page.
In any case, it is important to continuously monitor the performance of the pages and make adjustments if necessary to avoid cannibalization in the future; with DinoRANK you will have this under control.
How To Optimize Or De-Optimize Content That Is Cannibalizing
Search engines use algorithms to determine the relevance of a web page for a given search query, and one of the ways they do this is by identifying the keywords that appear most frequently on a page, relative to the keywords that appear on other similar pages.
Before optimizing or de-optimizing one of the two contents, it’s important to know all the keywords for each URL being cannibalized.
Then, you’ll need to analyze their semantic content with TF*IDF analysis.
So, analyzing a URL whose content you want to optimize/promote for a specific keyword with TF*IDF will allow you to understand which keywords are relevant to that content.
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Screenshot from DinoRANK.com, January 2023
Expanding and semantically optimizing content that is already ranking highly, whether it is cannibalizing or not, is one of the best ways to gain more relevance for those terms that only received impressions or a few clicks. This is because you are now providing a greater semantic richness to that content.
With DinoRANK, you can use TF*IDF analysis on already published URLs to see how to optimize them.
You can also use this feature when you want to create new content based on a keyword or a group of keywords you want to rank for.
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Screenshot from DinoRANK.com, January 2023
DinoRANK arranges the information visually, separating the graph into three filter layers: one keyword, two keywords, and three keywords.
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Screenshot from DinoRANK.com, January 2023
In addition to the recommendations, you will also be able to quickly see the header structure used by your most direct competitors in Google’s Top 10.
In a very short time, you’ll discover opportunities and content ideas with an optimal heading structure, including the related semantic keywords needed to rank.
If, in addition, this semantic content extension is complemented by some internal links to that optimized URL, and you do it with anchor text of the primary keyword or exact semantic keywords, you will strengthen the authority and the typicality of that URL you want to promote.
With internal links, you derive a greater semantic context and strengthen the authority of that page already optimized, thanks to the semantic prominence analysis TF*IDF.
If you want to use these features to work the SEO of your projects in a simple but effective way, you can try DinoRANK.
All the SEO your website needs can be found in DinoRANK.
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Microsoft Announces ChatGPT Capabilities Coming To Bing
Microsoft announced today that it is bringing cutting-edge AI capabilities to its Bing search engine, with the addition of a new ChatGPT-like feature.
Microsoft revealed its plans for integrating ChatGPT at a private event held at its Redmond headquarters today, which centered around its partnership with OpenAI.
Unlike recent virtual events, this particular press conference was held in person and not broadcast online.
During the event, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlighted the significance of this new feature and how it will revolutionize the way people interact with search engines.
“I think this technology is going to reshape pretty much every software category,” says Nadella.
Nadella proclaimed, “The race starts today,” and Microsoft is going to “move and move fast.”
The event attendees were given a sneak peek at the latest search experience, which Microsoft refers to as “your AI-powered copilot for the web.”
This new experience combines the all-new Bing search engine and Edge web browser, which are designed to complement each other.
Nadella explained that the new Bing would provide direct answers to questions and encourage users to be more creative.
He also stated that the current search experience is not working as efficiently as it should be, as 40% of the time, people click on search links and then immediately click back.
This clearly indicates that the search experience needs to be updated and improved. Nadella claims that the search engine user experience hasn’t changed in 20 years, and it’s time for Microsoft to adapt.
Introducing The New Bing
The new Bing is powered by a next-generation language model from OpenAI, which has been specifically customized for search purposes. It’s even more powerful than the ChatGPT model.
Microsoft has implemented a new way of working with OpenAI called the “prometheus model,” which enhances the relevancy of answers, annotates them, keeps them up to date, and more.
The search index has also been improved by applying the AI model to the core search algorithm, which Nadella calls the largest jump in relevance ever.
It runs on a new user experience with an expanded search box that accepts up to 1,000 characters. Examples shared during the event look exactly like recent leaks.
The new Bing includes a chatbot that behaves similarly to ChatGPT, allowing users to interact with Bing in a natural language.
Bing’s new ChatGPT-like feature will take it a step further by allowing users to have an actual conversation with the search engine, with the ability to follow up on previous questions and provide more context for their search.
The new Bing is now available for a limited preview on desktop, and anyone can try it out by visiting Bing.com and performing sample searches.
You can also sign up to be notified when it becomes more widely available.
The preview will be expanded to millions of users in the near future, and a mobile version will be available soon.
The New Edge Browser
The chat interface Microsoft demonstrated in Bing is available as a sidebar feature in Edge, allowing users to access it without navigating to the Bing website. The interface can run alongside any webpage and interact with it.
During a demonstration, the AI assistant in Edge could summarize a 15-page PDF with one click and even translate a code snippet from Stack Overflow into another programming language.
Another benefit of the Edge browser’s “AI co-pilot” is having it complete tasks for you, such as filling out forms and writing emails.
In Summary
Microsoft has made a substantial leap in search engine technology by integrating a ChatGPT-like feature in its Bing search engine.
The new Bing is powered by a next-generation language model from OpenAI, which takes key learnings and advancements from ChatGPT and GPT-3.5.
Bing with the AI co-pilot is now available for a limited preview on desktop, and a mobile version will be available soon.
Additionally, the chat interface will be available as a sidebar feature in the new Edge browser, which has the ability to summarize information, translate code, and even complete tasks.
Source: Microsoft
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