Friday, January 12, 2024

Bing Anonymous URL Submission Tool Being Retired

Anonymous URL Submission Tool Being Retired

Saying Goodbye is never easy, but the time has come to announce the withdrawal of anonymous non-signed in support Bing's URL submission tool. Webmaster will still be able to log in and access Submit URL tool in Bing Webmaster Tools, and this is easier than ever as the tool now supports Google and Facebook authentication in addition to existing Microsoft accounts.

Why say goodbye ?

Well, the URLs received are by far too low quality to be trustable, and webmasters preferring having more ownership of the URLs for their site.

In order to use the tool, webmasters just need to login, add and verify their site. Then navigate to the Submit URL tool within the Configure My Site menu options.

In case the webmasters want to use our Bing Webmaster tools API, webmasters have to generate an API key through Bing Webmaster Tools and follow the guidelines for its usage here. In case you haven't signed up on the tool yet, please click here to sign up.

Thank you,
The Bing Webmaster Tools Team

Explorez le Monde des Recherches en Ligne : Les 10 Moteurs Qui Dominent l'Internet

Explorez le Monde des Recherches en Ligne : Les 10 Moteurs Qui Dominent l'Internet

Découvrez les géants de la recherche en ligne qui façonnent notre expérience sur Internet. De Google à Baidu, plongez dans l'univers des moteurs de recherche et apprenez-en davantage sur leurs caractéristiques uniques qui les rendent incontournables dans le paysage numérique mondial.

  1. Google : Le moteur de recherche le plus utilisé au monde, développé par Google. Il utilise des algorithmes sophistiqués pour fournir des résultats de recherche pertinents et de qualité.
  2. Bing (Microsoft) : Propriété de Microsoft, Bing est un moteur de recherche qui offre une alternative à Google. Il met l'accent sur l'intégration de résultats multimédias et propose des fonctionnalités telles que les images de fond sur la page d'accueil.
  3. Yahoo! : Yahoo! utilise la technologie de Bing pour alimenter ses résultats de recherche. Il propose également des services supplémentaires tels que des actualités, des finances, et des courriels.
  4. Baidu (Chine) : Moteur de recherche prédominant en Chine, Baidu propose des services similaires à Google. Il est adapté aux utilisateurs chinois et est souvent utilisé pour la recherche en mandarin.
  5. Yandex (Russie) : Yandex est le principal moteur de recherche en Russie. Il offre des services de recherche, de cartographie, de navigation et de musique. Yandex est souvent considéré comme le "Google russe".
  6. DuckDuckGo : DuckDuckGo se concentre sur la confidentialité de l'utilisateur en ne suivant pas les recherches. Il ne personnalise pas les résultats en fonction de l'historique de recherche de l'utilisateur.
  7. Ask.com : Ask.com est un moteur de recherche qui permet aux utilisateurs de poser des questions sous forme de phrases naturelles. Il fournit des réponses directes aux questions posées.
  8. AOL Search : AOL Search est le moteur de recherche d'AOL. Il agrège les résultats de plusieurs autres moteurs de recherche.
  9. Naver (Corée du Sud) : Naver est le principal moteur de recherche en Corée du Sud. Il offre également des services tels que la cartographie, les actualités, les blogs et les forums de discussion.
  10. Qwant (France) : Qwant est un moteur de recherche français qui met l'accent sur la protection de la vie privée de l'utilisateur en ne suivant pas les recherches. Il agrège des résultats de plusieurs sources.

Chacun de ces moteurs de recherche a ses propres caractéristiques et avantages, et le choix entre eux dépend souvent des préférences de l'utilisateur et de la région géographique.

Friday, February 26, 2016

Search Alliance Global Algo Transition Update (Article from Kartik Ramakrishnan)

It is with great pleasure I’d like to share that Yahoo! has completed the algorithmic transition to Bing in all global markets (except Korea), across desktop and mobile, for all Yahoo! and syndication traffic. This has been a huge effort spanning 20-plus months involving many people across Yahoo! and Microsoft. Only Korea, which involves a three-way integration between Yahoo, Microsoft and Daum, remains, and is expected to complete by the end of the year.


I often get asked what makes the algo transition effort so complex. Here are some of the interesting challenges we’ve had to deal with to provide some color to the effort:

We had to cutover web, image and video search experiences from Yahoo!’s search technology backend to Bing’s algorithmic backend for 40-plus markets, across desktop and mobile devices.

In addition to Yahoo’s owned and operated search experiences, we also had to cut over hundreds of our syndication partners in more than 50 markets, while ensuring a smooth transition for users of our wildly popular Yahoo! Search BOSS service.

Cutting over to the Bing backend was not simply a matter of technical integration through the Bing API. We worked with Microsoft to ensure that Bing’s algorithmic quality in each of these markets was on par or better than Yahoo!’s quality. Wherever we found quality gaps, we worked collaboratively with our counterparts at Bing to provide data driven assessments of quality gaps to help us close the gaps quickly. Only when both teams had established that the quality bar in a market was met, did we green light the cutover.

A very important design principle was to ensure availability of all key user experience elements of the Yahoo! search experience post-cutover. This meant that we had to perform a comprehensive analysis of product features per market, assess which of those would require support from the Bing platform, and which features Yahoo! would have to continue to develop and invest in.

Creating a migration path to Bing Webmaster tools for users of Yahoo! Site Explorer, while continuing to support Site Explorer for international users during the transition period proved challenging.

We had to confirm Bing could handle Yahoo’s capacity across multiple global datacenters, including new ones that were brought online to serve the needs of the Search Alliance. The fact that all the cutovers went remarkably smoothly and were essentially non-events from an operational perspective is a testament to the thorough job both teams did.

For all our major markets, we ran comprehensive bucket tests to compare the Yahoo! search experience going against the Yahoo! and Bing backends. We monitored key user experience metrics to ensure that the product experience post cutover would be on par or better for our customers.
We had to put in place support and customer care processes that ensured user concerns and content issues were handled appropriately between our companies, working through policy differences to ensure the right outcome for all stakeholders.

For those of us who have been deeply involved in the algo transition, this has easily been one of the best learning experiences of our professional lives. All the late nights, war room huddles, SeaTac trips and time away from families, all of the technical deep dives, business negotiations, ‘pausing & unpausing’ ;-), have all been worth it. I am extraordinarily privileged to have worked with an exceptional group of people, both within Yahoo! and Microsoft — you all know who you are. Thank you so much for your dedication and commitment to delivering the best possible search experience for our users.

– Kartik Ramakrishnan, VP of Search Engineering, Yahoo!
http://www.ysearchblog.com/2011/10/18/search-alliance-global-algo-transition-update/

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Submit Url to Bing

To submit an URL to Bing

http://www.bing.com/toolbox/submit-site-url