{"id":24602,"date":"2024-05-08T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=24602"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:21:59","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T12:21:59","slug":"microsoft-is-testing-a-clear-distinction-between-free-and-paid-search-results-on-bing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/?p=24602","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is testing a clear distinction between free and paid search results on Bing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Microsoft’s disclosure of search ads on Bing hasn’t been the greatest, honestly, in many cases worse than Google’s disclosures. Recently, however, Bing has been testing a clearer distinction between its ads and organic free listings.<\/p>\n

Frank Sandtmann spotted it and published it mastodon<\/a> and after playing with it enough, I was able to replicate it.<\/p>\n

See how the ads appear on the white background and the free organic listings on the gray background:<\/p>\n

\"Bing<\/a><\/p>\n

I wonder if this will be published or after Microsoft sees the results they will again make the distinction between ads and free results almost impossible to see.<\/p>\n

Frank posted more examples mastodon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Discussion in the forum a mastodon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Microsoft’s disclosure of search ads on Bing hasn’t been the greatest, honestly, in many cases worse than Google’s disclosures. Recently, however, Bing has been testing a clearer distinction between its ads and organic free listings. Frank Sandtmann spotted it and published it mastodon and after playing with it enough, I was able to replicate it. See how the ads appear on the white background and the free organic listings on the gray background: I wonder… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24604,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24602\/revisions\/24604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afreeurl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}