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Experiment: Bing free listings only appeared after ads were enabled

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Brodie Clark ran a Bing product feeds experiment in which free listings only began showing after ads were enabled. He highlights Bing feeds' growing importance as grounding data for LLMs, including ChatGPT.

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For you, this means Bing feeds punch above their traffic share in the AI era, so set them up even if Bing spend is minimal.

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Experiment: Bing free listings only appeared after ads were enabled

Brodie Clark ran a Bing product feeds experiment in which free listings only began showing after ads were enabled. He highlights Bing feeds' growing importance as grounding data for LLMs, including ChatGPT. For you, this means Bing feeds punch above their traffic share in the AI era, so set them up even if Bing spend is minimal.

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