Comments on: Bing People Snippets

By: Is Bing Testing It's Own Version Of "Authorsip"?Competition Web Marketing

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:38:59 +0000

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By: Bing Now Knows Much More About People And Places Thanks To LinkedIn And Its Satori Entity Engine | TechCrunch

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:02:31 +0000

[...] Earlier this week, a number of people spotted what looked like author images on Bing. While it does indeed look like Bing is testing this feature, this [...]

By: AJ Kohn

AJ Kohn — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:21:27 +0000

Chad,

There’s been some research on Google Authorship photos that different photos can lead to higher CTR. Just like in real life, pretty folks often have a bit of an advantage, particularly on that first glance. For Bing, you might be able to try to do that but the selection of the image doesn’t seem very uniform right now so I think it would actually be harder to game right now.

By: Chad Henkel

Chad Henkel — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:28:12 +0000

AJ here’s a question: for decentralized images, have you seen entity (like the Tim Gun example) game and/or test whether the images they use increase CTR? It’d be interesting to see…

By: Siegfried

Siegfried — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:17:44 +0000

Ha!
Correct me if I am wrong – is the autorship gonna be the word of 2013 ? seems so!
best regards!

By: Is Bing Testing "Subjectship" Rather Than Authorship In Its Search Results

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:17:49 +0000

[...] turn link people or subject images back to stories. Perhaps, and AJ Kohn explores this more in his Bing People Snippets post. It could be that Bing is trying to extract and apply this type of [...]

By: Lars Skjoldby

Lars Skjoldby — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:14:13 +0000

Amazing how far you got at so little time.

By the way, it only seems to work with Bing United States – English.

I just tested in Danish, German, United Kingdom and United States – Spanish, and here’s no people snippets.

And funny how it selects Matt Cutts halloween costume as the people snippet.

By: Chase Billow

Chase Billow — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:03:18 +0000

And not just About pages. In the “Matt Cutts” example, all Bing needed was a human photo (after correction) and strong enough signals to display a thumbnail from the image on the page of the search result.

My advice – if you care about Bing, have a Bio page (when appropriate) with a clear headshot and appropriate alt/title tags as this is also appearing for branded searches, not necessarily just people searches (although it seems the brand has to be pretty closely related to the person). One photo seems best.

By: James A. Holloway

James A. Holloway — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:58:48 +0000

Tried searching “Blind Five Year Old” myself, and got your main page but not your about page with headshot.

Searched for myself using quotations “James A. Holloway” and it returned my About.me page, my Linkedin page (with headshot), my Google+ page, and my twitter page as well as several other results that were not me.

By: Anthony Pensabene

Anthony Pensabene — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:39:46 +0000

i just toyed around a bit myself.. site searches don’t elicit any images for blindfiveyearold or my blog thus far… also, i don’t use bing very much, but notice suggested image searches (suggesting other people) when searching names?