Bing Is Testing Shopping Search Results Personalized With Follow-Up Questions
TLDR
Microsoft Bing is testing a feature that asks shoppers a series of questions to personalize their shopping search results.
What this Bing test means for your site
- Status
- Test
- Platform
- Bing
- Affects
- Bing shopping search results personalization
- Who
- Not specified in the source
- Effective
- Not specified in the source
- Action needed
- Not specified in the source
Optimixed Overview
Optimixed's original report on this story.
Microsoft is testing a Bing shopping experience that prompts searchers with questions, saying "Let's personalize your results," before refining the shopping results based on their answers. SERoundtable reports that the feature is currently a test, with no broader rollout details given.
How we got here: earlier Bing coverage
- Oct 15Bing Tests Related Searches Based on Your Browsing History
Bing is testing personalized "related searches" based on user browsing history, displayed below ads in search results.
- Sep 18Bing asking users to verify they are human before displaying search results
Bing has started requiring some users to complete human verification before displaying search results, mirroring a practice Google already enforces.
- Sep 16Bing adds shopping filters to left sidebar, mirroring Google's layout
Bing is testing left-sidebar shopping filters in its search results to align more closely with Google's interface.
- Jul 21Bing Experiments With Image Section in Shopping Panel Results
Bing is testing an image section within its shopping panel display, spotted by a user but not yet widely replicated.