Bing Now With Long Form Answers At The Top Of The Search Results

Apr 27, 2015 - 8:10 am 1 by
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New Bing LogoSpotted by Romit Mehta and posted on Twitter, Bing is now also providing detailed long-form answers at the top of their search results, ultimately bypassing the need for searchers to click over to the publisher's web site who provides the answer.

Here is an example of the layout of this long form Bing answer:

A search for [rebuild spotlight index]:

Bing Long Form Answers

I guess they let Google take the heat long enough from publishers around these Google Answer Knowledge Graph results, it is time Bing release their own form of long answers?

I bet publishers will only be slightly less upset with Bing, who has been winning over the webmasters since Google has been undermining them with these answers.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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