Disable the Bing Discover button in Edge

One of the new features in the development build of Edge at the moment is this Discover button, for some users its a purple star, for others its got the Bing logo, and as expected connects to a wide range of Bing services, including the new Chat AI. As it stands at the moment this will likely ship in version 111, i.e. the next big release. I imagine the behaviour of this button will annoy many users as it looks distracting and opens on a long hover aswell as left-click, no doubt prompting many accidental openings....

Sunday, 19 February 2023 · 2 min · Paul Smith

The New Bing AI Assistant

Please note: This entire article was written by Bing Chat AI assistant after asking it to write a blog post about itself and talk about some of its features. None of the grammer or spelling has been changed, all I did was add “Please leave a comment below.” to the very end of the article. Microsoft has recently launched a new version of its Bing search engine that features an AI-powered assistant called Chat....

Saturday, 18 February 2023 · 5 min · Paul Smith

Website removed from Bing search results?

I was doing a bit of work today on a couple of websites, including this one and noticed a drop in traffic from Bing. Initially I thought this might be related to the website re-design which was rolled out February 6th. However it looks like the problem goes back to November, when traffic suddenly dropped off. De-indexing looks like it started January 16th and was complete 4th of February with now no pages from dasmirnov....

Monday, 14 March 2022 · 3 min · Paul Smith