3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (303+ words) Published on September 10, 2026 Copilot Chat is coming directly to Outlook’s email composer, giving users a new way to get AI help while writing messages without leaving the draft. Microsoft plans to add an inline Copilot Chat experience to Outlook on…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (279+ words) Published on September 10, 2026 Microsoft previously halted the Copilot Domain Exclusion rollout, but the company has now resumed the rollout of Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot. The feature targets IT administrators who want tighter control over the public web content Copilot…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1706+ words) I built a push-indexing prototype in rural Russia. Microsoft said no. Two decades later, the industry built it. In October 1998, an envelope from Redmond, Washington, landed in my mailbox in Velikiye Luki. Inside was a five-line letter: "Although your submission…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (353+ words) Microsoft is no stranger to self-promotion, and there have been multiple instances of Windows 11 being used as a vehicle to advertise or promote other products and services made by the company. The built-in search tool is an example, with many…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (329+ words) Microsoft is rolling out a redesigned Windows 11 Search experience that allows users to remove Bing web results and Microsoft Store suggestions. New controls under Settings > Privacy & security > Search allow users to disable web results while retaining Microsoft Store recommendations, or…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (781+ words) Microsoft has built a Windows app for something that sounds almost too trivial to need an app: asking whether you want Bing to become your default search engine. The catch is in how that question is presented. The option to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (97+ words) Search Engine Roundtable This was first spotted by Venkat who covered this at Windows Report but I wanted to get confirmation that this fully changed and how this might impact Bing Search. So if you try to go straight to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (445+ words) Microsoft has spent the past few months testing a much cleaner version of Windows Search, and it is finally starting to reach regular Windows 11 PCs. According to Windows Latest, the redesigned Search experience is included in the August 2026 optional update,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (809+ words) The August optional update brought some of the most requested changes Windows 11 has ever shipped, and the new Search, without Bing and Copilot results, is my favorite of the bunch. However, for most users, it will not turn on immediately....

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (409+ words) Bingbot is Microsoft's web crawler for Bing, Copilot, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo: user agent strings, crawl-delay support, IP verification, and where it is disputed. Discovery runs on three inputs: links on known pages, XML sitemaps, and direct submission. Before fetching, bingbot…...