Microsoft launched the Copilot Merchant Program to enhance product details for Copilot. This program aims to improve customers’ shopping experiences by providing a personal shopper feature that offers price alerts, product suggestions, and seamless check-out in the app. By joining, brands can increase visibility, attract customers, and boost sales with AI support. Participants can share product specifications to ensure accurate suggestions to customers.
Copilot in Bing Webmaster Tools enhances SEO by offering webmasters instant, accurate answers. Key features include real-time Q&A, deep data insights, integration with Microsoft Advertising and Clarity, automation of tasks, and contextual support. Currently in limited preview for select testers, feedback will inform future development. The tool aims to streamline workflows, enabling webmasters to concentrate on website enhancement and user engagement.
Google is launching an astroturf group to discredit Microsoft with competition authorities and policymakers, using European cloud providers as the public face while hiding its involvement. This follows Google's failed attempt to weaponize CISPE against Microsoft. Google is also using paid commentators and lobbying to attack Microsoft amid its own antitrust investigations. Google aims to distract from its regulatory scrutiny and promote its cloud services.
Create professional Google Ads performance reports in Google Slides with AI insights and visualizations. Transform Google Ads data into polished presentations featuring AI-generated insights and custom visuals to impress stakeholders and streamline reporting. Use cases include reducing manual reporting time, presenting insights without design skills, maintaining reporting schedules, identifying trends, and sharing campaign insights for strategic decisions.
Bing Webmaster Tools now offers 16 months of historical data in the Search Performance feature, extending from the previous 6 months. This allows users to analyze long-term trends, seasonal patterns, and campaign effectiveness, aiding in more informed decision-making and strategy development. The extended data view helps webmasters and marketers create data-driven SEO strategies, allocate resources effectively, and gain a competitive edge.
Microsoft Copilot Vision is a new AI feature that understands and interacts with web pages in real-time, answering questions and suggesting next steps without disrupting workflow. Initially available to a limited number of Copilot Pro users, it aims to balance innovation with responsibility. Copilot Labs will trial this feature, ensuring user data is not stored and focusing on safety. The first feature, Think Deeper, helps solve complex problems.
Microsoft's Bing search engine has expanded its generative search capabilities, using AI to optimize search results and their presentation. It now handles complex queries and offers an interactive demo for US users. The update is in beta, focusing on informational queries, with results clearly indicated. Users can provide feedback, and Bing includes citations to maintain web health. This marks a significant leap in online search technology.
Microsoft announces Copilot Pages, a collaborative AI canvas in Microsoft 365, enhancing productivity with AI-generated content that can be edited and shared in real-time. Copilot is also improving in Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and OneDrive, offering features like data analysis, storytelling, email management, and document referencing. New Copilot agents automate business processes, and an agent builder simplifies creating agents.
Bing is testing a new generative search experience combining traditional search results with AI-generated content. Using large language models, it creates dynamic responses to queries, offering detailed, easy-to-read information with links and sources. The generative search maintains traditional results and supports a healthy web ecosystem. Bing is gradually rolling out this feature and seeking user feedback to refine it.
Microsoft's AI-powered Designer app is now available on iOS, Android, and Windows, supporting over 80 languages. The app generates images and designs from text prompts, offering features like stickers, greeting cards, and collages. It integrates with Microsoft products like Word and PowerPoint through Copilot, and includes prompt templates to aid creativity. Users get 15 free daily boosts, with a Copilot Pro subscription offering 100 boosts per day.
