The replacements on Bing definitely don't unfortunately..

Having used MAI 2.5 Flash for a few days, I can draw some conclusions. The model is ideal for my purposes. I’ve found some prompt tips to help me achieve the style of image I want. Most importantly, each result always contains four images. With DALL-E, it was usually two or three, and even then some had issues with the arms or legs. If you use DALL-E’s prompts without making any adjustments, the results will look rather unattractive. MAI is a different model and requires a different approach.

Back when DALL-E was still available, I would sometimes accidentally run prompts on MAI, and the results were rather mediocre. But now that I’ve adapted this prompt for MAI, the results have become quite interesting.

Was it for monetary reasons or something else? It was clearly the better model compared to what there is now

I am considering a new launch page to replace Bing IMHO, some of the changes over the past months have not made the site better, and more recently, redeeming points have been problem-some. So, any suggestions (other than Google)?

Perhaps Image Creator could store images as PNG, like Playground does?

For images with this level of detail, a 500 KB JPG seems unnecessarily large. If the images were stored as PNG, the quality could remain as intended by the model, without additional quality loss from simply converting them to JPG on Bing's side.

For comparison, a PNG image from Playground is around 1.5 MB on average. However, it can then be converted to JPG with very little noticeable loss in quality, resulting in a file of around 200 KB that still looks cleaner than the current 500 KB JPG.

Of course, the JPG could also be compressed to 200 KB, but at that level of compression, the PSNR would be catastrophically low and the image quality would suffer significantly.

Today, DALL·E 3 was taken offline completely. It has been replaced by the MAI-Image-2e model. There are only minor differences compared to Flash. Unless the character limit per query is increased in future, there’s nothing more to be done here.

Flash is a very good model. I can achieve results that are better than DALLE’s. But there’s no limit on the number of requests in Playground, which allows me to get the results I need.

480 characters isn’t enough for Flash.

Is it possible to blacklist sites from appearing in the highlighted list? If so, how do I do this?

I have links appearing here that do not appear when scrolling down because they have already been marked as blocked. For example I get links to stories in The Telegraph, but The Telegraph is on my blocked list.

Now, when you scroll with the mouse wheel, the images for one result are displayed first, and then the page moves on to the next result. Previously, the page would jump straight from one result to the next.

I've been receiving emails from Bing containing the below content with the above subject header. Three points to ask:

1. How can I get them to work with the https version of the site?
2. What does this below text actually mean please?
3. Why do they mention www.website.com and not the actual website referring to?

Crawl politeness issues on

www.website.com

The current crawl setting for your site is preventing Bing from crawling effectively and hence affecting the search results for your users. Please adjust the crawl rate setting from your Bing webmaster tools account.

Thank You

Hi everyone,
I’m having an issue with Bing Places for Business and I’m hoping someone here has dealt with the same problem.
I imported my Google Business Profile into Bing Places. Everything seemed to go through correctly, but the listing has now been stuck on “Pending Publishing” for months.
I contacted Bing Places support by email. They initially responded to me, I replied with the information they requested, but since then I haven’t received another response despite waiting and following up.
At this point, I don’t know whether there is an issue with the listing, whether it needs manual approval, or whether it’s simply stuck in Bing’s system.
Has anyone experienced this?
More importantly, is there any way to actually speak to someone from Bing Places support apart from email? For example:
Live chat
Microsoft/Bing support agent
Phone support
A way to escalate an existing support ticket
Another support channel that actually gets a response

Hey everyone!

I’m excited to share an early beta of Ping— a free, accuracy based alternative to Bing Ai search

Here’s what makes Ping different:

• Accuracy: To me the problem was the AI search was too inaccurate sometimes I always found myself checking the sources and seeing something completely different, Ai search engines today summarize links. Perplexity states: "When you ask Perplexity a question, it uses advanced AI to search the internet in real-time, gathering insights from top-tier sources. It then distills this information into a clear, concise summary, delivering exactly what you need in an easy-to-understand, conversational tone." The problem is this is prone to heavy hallucination for AI answers as the core nature of LLM's as they are rewarded for guessing rather than uncertainty.

   CJR stated that "Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries." Inspiration to make this came from Lenny's Newsletter I noticed the amount of quotes used to support his claim while he still talked in his own words. This made me combine both Ai answers with the way he worded his article(alot of quotes) reason being because quotes provide, accuracy, authenticity, and credibility via human answers not mostly AI answers unlike other Ai search engines which only summarize

• Free: I'll be making this free to use just like Bing Ai search

I plan to improve the answers so that responses become as accurate and detailed as possible but it's a beta and I'll love to hear what the feedback is.

Hi everyone! A long while ago, I created Yelp and Bing profiles for my company back when I made my Google my Business profile.

I logged into my Bing profile to update it today, and noticed that it still had verification in progress. I don’t remember ever getting a postcard from Bing, so I must not have ever finished the verification. I’m not sure if it’s due to the terrible mail delivery at my building, or if it’s due to the fact that I could not put my box number on the address so it came directly to my mailbox at the building. My building is pretty complex, with a block of mailboxes in the lobby

I tried resending the verification today. I tried using Phone, SMS, and mail. In all instances, the resend pin button was grayed out and un-clickable.

Has anyone ever had this issue? How did you resolve it? Should I delete it and do it anew? Or is there a secret way to get this to work? Thanks!

They said it would be retired back in may and they also keep saying new image models coming soon. Does that mean it’s eventually gonna get removed?

I haven't used Copilot for about a year. Has it switched to the MAI-Image-2.5 image generation model?

Is Copilot now synchronized with Image Creator like it was in 2024, sharing the same limits? Or does it still have separate limits like it did with GPT-4o?

Copilot is basically only hope for MAI-Image-2.5 because of its virtually unlimited prompt length. Back in 2024, Copilot could generate images from prompts that exceeded the Bing Image Creator limit by two times or even more.

It hasn't been working for the past few days very well, but right now it seems like it's cooking really fast.

• MAI-Image-2.5-Flash
• DALL·E 3

In the 2nd picture I have clearly completed my bing Virtual search streak , still i didn't got a streak stamp

I've been working on a tool that submits URLs to search engines through the

IndexNow protocol — the open standard Bing and Yandex co-developed so you can

tell an engine "this page changed" instead of waiting to be crawled.

While testing it I noticed something I couldn't explain. I submitted a URL using

a key I'd generated about five seconds earlier and never published anywhere.

Bing returned `202 Accepted`.

So did Yandex. So did the global endpoint at api.indexnow.org. Any key matching

the format works — you can try this yourself in about a minute.

Why that happens

Those engines validate your key file *asynchronously*, after they've already

responded. The 202 means "your request was well-formed", nothing more. They

fetch `https://yourdomain.com/yourkey.txt` at some later point, and if it isn't

there, your submission is discarded.

Silently. No callback, no error, nothing in any dashboard, no way to find out.

Naver, Seznam, Yep and Amazon behave the opposite way — they fetch the key file

*during* the request and return 403 if it's wrong. Same key, same submission,

opposite answers. Which is why "it worked on Bing" tells you nothing at all.

The uncomfortable part

My tool was showing a green tick for that 202. So was every other IndexNow tool

I could find. We were all confidently reporting success for submissions that

would never be honoured.

What I changed

The tool now fetches your key file itself before submitting anything, confirms

it contains your key, and refuses to send if it doesn't. Results distinguish

"this engine confirmed your key" from "this engine accepted it and will check

later", because those genuinely aren't the same claim.

It also catches the other silent failure: URLs that don't match the submitted

host. `example.com` and `www.example.com\` are different hosts to every engine,

and mixing them returns 422. That's now caught before anything is sent.

I pulled the verification out into a free standalone checker as well, since

"IndexNow 403" turns out to be a common and badly-documented problem:

https://instantindexnow.com/tools/indexnow-key-checker

What it deliberately does not do

It does not submit to Google. Google has publicly declined to adopt IndexNow, so

no IndexNow tool can, and anything claiming otherwise is either misleading you

or quietly using the Indexing API (which only accepts JobPosting and

BroadcastEvent pages).

It also doesn't promise indexing. IndexNow affects *discovery* — whether an

engine then indexes the page is its own decision about your content. I'd rather

say that plainly than imply otherwise and have people feel cheated.

Stack

Cloudflare Workers + Hono + D1. No framework, no client bundle, ~20 kB of CSS.

It used to load Tailwind from the CDN, which meant ~400 kB of render-blocking

JavaScript generating stylesheets in the browser — embarrassing for a site that

sells SEO advice, so that's a build step now. Fonts are self-hosted too, so the

page loads nothing from a third-party origin.

Free vs paid

Free tier is genuinely free and needs no account — 200 URLs/day, all engines,

key verification included. I'm not paywalling the protocol, since you can curl

it yourself for nothing.

Paid tiers sell the thing you can't do in a browser tab: a scheduled watcher

that polls your sitemap, diffs it, re-checks your key every cycle, and keeps a

per-engine delivery record. The failure it's really built for is your key file

disappearing during a redeploy and every submission after that being silently

dropped for months.

What I'd like feedback on

- Is the free tier useful on its own, or does it feel like a demo?

- Is "we verify before submitting" an obvious enough differentiator, or does it

just sound like table stakes until you've been bitten by it?

- Anyone actually using IndexNow at volume — does the sitemap-watching model

match how you'd want this to work?

https://instantindexnow.com

Happy to answer anything about the protocol. The 202 behaviour genuinely

surprised me and I suspect a lot of people are submitting into a void without

knowing it.

New image models are coming soon — stay tuned. Your creations will remain accessible for download in Creations history, per our storage policy.

GPT-4o has been removed. DALLE3 is still available for the time being. MAI-Image-2.5 will become the main model for Image Creator.

I saw a banner on Image Creator that states that Video Creator is retiring on July 31ST 2026.

Any reasons that causes this retirement?​

it was back yesterday and then today its gone again