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Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools introduces four expanded AI performance capabilites in preview: Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare, enhancing publishers' understanding of AI-generated content visibility and citation dynamics.
AI applications are only as good as the information they reason from. Without fresh, high-quality web data, they are less dependable. Today, Microsoft is launching Web IQ: a suite of AI-native grounding APIs built for the agentic era, connecting AI systems and agents to current, real-world…
Today, we’re introducing an evolution of Bing Image Search– a unique AI-guided experience that organizes results to reduce the feeling of being overwhelmed, making it easier to find what you’re looking for.
In an AI-powered search world, visibility is responsibility. Bing is rethinking search with safety by design at its core—combining risk detection, trusted content prioritization, and user controls to ensure that when it matters most, support is more visible than harm.
Search indexing was built to help humans decide what to read. Grounding is being built to help AI systems decide what to say and simultaneously helping people to verify, refine, or challenge what the AI system produces. That is the shift - and it runs deeper than it might first appear.
Harrier is a new embedding model series designed for the demands of modern AI systems. It is our latest open-source text embedding model series, delivering state-of-the-art performance and ranking 1st on the multilingual MTEB-v2 benchmark.
Enhanced mapping accuracy worldwide: Bing Maps completes the global rollout of TomTom Orbis Addresses, with Orbis data now live worldwide — improving coverage, precision, and freshness.
The Microsoft Rewards Total Prize Drop is officially underway, and it’s bringing the biggest rewards yet. For a limited time, Microsoft Rewards members can enter for a chance to win a $1,000,000 USD cash grand prize or one of three customizable Mercedes‑Benz cars.
At Microsoft, we’ve been steadily advancing grounding technology for a while, building on decades of operating large‑scale search and information systems through Bing and focusing on scale, reliability, and trust. And today, Microsoft grounding powers nearly every major AI assistant in the market.
Now in public preview, AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools shows when your site is cited in AI‑generated answers across Microsoft Copilot, AI‑generated summaries in Bing, and select partner integrations. See which URLs are referenced and how citation activity changes over time.
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