# Microsoft Bing — the record

Microsoft's search and Copilot stack, plus Webmaster Tools — often first to ship AI-visibility data for site owners.

One item. Microsoft added four AI-performance capabilities in preview to Bing Webmaster Tools in June 2026 — Intents, Topics, Citation Share and Compare — extending its AI Performance reports toward citation-level visibility data. That makes Bing's console the only first-party citation-share reporting on this record; Search Console's generative-AI reports give impressions and clicks, not citations. Everything else is thin. The wire carries nothing from Microsoft on Copilot's answer behavior, no measure of Bing's own share of AI answers, and no comparison of the preview's numbers against third-party estimates.

Also known as: https://www.bing.com/ · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bing · https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q182496

- 2026-09-04: ChatGPT's in-house search index still leans on Google, Bing (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-04-chatgpt-s-in-house-search-index-still-leans-on-google-bing/)
  Peec AI's Tomek Rudzki reports that OpenAI has built its own retrieval index, internally named Labrador, spanning separate vertical indexes for web pages…
- 2026-08-31: Microsoft requires login for Copilot, but not Bing's AI answers (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-31-microsoft-requires-login-for-copilot-but-not-bing-s-ai-answers/)
  Microsoft now requires users to sign in to reach Copilot directly, whether at copilot.microsoft.com or via the Copilot button on Bing's homepage, per…
- 2026-08-27: Bing tests renaming Copilot Search to AI Overviews (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-27-bing-tests-renaming-copilot-search-to-ai-overviews/)
  Microsoft is testing a rename of the AI answer box atop Bing Search results, from Copilot Search to AI Overviews — the term Google uses for its own AI…
- 2026-08-22: Google adds experiment tools to AI Max for Search ads (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-22-google-adds-experiment-tools-to-ai-max-for-search-ads/)
  Google added experimentation and planning features to AI Max for Search campaigns on August 21, including multi-campaign A/B testing arriving in…
- 2026-07-20: Bing Webmaster Tools previews AI visibility insights, including citation share (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-20-bing-webmaster-tools-previews-ai-visibility-insights-including/)
  Microsoft added four AI-performance capabilities in preview to Bing Webmaster Tools — Intents, Topics, Citation Share and Compare — extending its AI…

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