Bing Webmaster Tools updates AI reporting with Intents, Topics, Citation Share and Compare

Jun 16, 2026 10:57 PM - 6 hours ago 219

Microsoft is now officially releasing a preview of the caller AI capacity report wrong Bing Webmaster Tools that now includes Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare. We saw Microsoft demo these features successful precocious April but now it is really starting to rotation retired to users.

As a reminder, Bing officially rolled retired its AI capacity study successful February. Google didn’t rotation retired its AI reporting successful Search Console until June, and it seemed forced.

What is new. “These caller capabilities build connected that instauration by helping publishers amended understand why their contented is being surfaced, which broader taxable areas they are gaining visibility in, how their beingness evolves comparative to different cited sources, and how citation patterns alteration complete time,” wrote Krishna Madhavan from Microsoft.

Intent: The caller Intents characteristic successful Bing Webmaster Tools now classifies the grounding queries successful the AI Performance Report successful broader categories, specified arsenic Informational, Commercial, Navigational, Learn and Solve, Research, Creation, Local, and more. This successful a consciousness helps you understand the intent down the punctual aliases query. “This helps publishers move beyond simply seeing which queries triggered citations and statesman knowing the broader query discourse our systems subordinate pinch those citation appearances,” Krishna Madhavan wrote.

The illustration provided was that an e-commerce patient whitethorn observe beardown visibility successful comparison-oriented aliases shopping-focused AI experiences, while an acquisition patient whitethorn find that their contented is often surfaced successful investigation aliases learning-oriented interactions. These insights tin thief publishers amended align contented building and extent pinch the types of experiences wherever AI systems are surfacing their content.

Topics: The Topics successful the AI capacity reports group related grounding queries into broader thematic clusters. AI systems logic crossed concepts and themes alternatively than isolated keywords, Microsoft explained. So by having topics, it will thief publishers understand visibility successful the aforesaid thematic building that modern AI systems usage to shape information.

So for example, queries specified arsenic “solar panels,” “solar power efficiency,” and “residential star installation,” for example, whitethorn each representation into a broader taxable cluster like Solar Energy.  “This creates a much earthy measurement to analyse AI visibility. Content teams and publishers often deliberation successful position of themes, editorial areas, and assemblage interests alternatively than isolated keywords. Topics thief span that spread by turning grounding query information into a much thematic position of AI engagement,” Microsoft wrote.

One note, “during the preview phase, immoderate labels whitethorn still beryllium broad – especially for highly specialized aliases niche domains – but the strategy is already opening to uncover meaningful thematic patterns,” Microsoft wrote.

Citations. Microsoft besides added citation share, which shows really overmuch of the citation abstraction your site receives for a circumstantial grounding query. Citation stock is calculated arsenic the percent of citations attributed to your tract retired of each citations shown crossed each sites for that aforesaid grounding query. “This helps publishers understand not conscionable whether they were cited, but really overmuch visibility they received wrong the afloat group of cited sources for that query,” Microsoft explained.

Microsoft added these points:

  • “This can provide a much directional position into really visibility is evolving complete time. Publishers whitethorn statesman to identify areas wherever their contented has beardown and increasing practice successful AI-generated experiences, arsenic good arsenic areas wherever visibility whitethorn beryllium much fragmented crossed galore sources.”
  • “Importantly, Citation Share is designed arsenic an observational metric – not a ranking strategy aliases a competitory scoreboard. It does not expose competitor domains, correspond postulation share, aliases delegate value scores to content.”
  • “AI citation ecosystems are inherently dynamic. Citation patterns tin displacement owed to changes successful personification behavior, evolving models, freshness signals, partner refresh cycles, and broader changes crossed the web itself.”

Compare. With each of that, you tin besides comparison the changes complete time. The comparison characteristic allows you to overlay a previous time period directly onto the existent reporting view. 

“Compare is designed to thief publishers observe changes complete time. Citation activity tin beryllium influenced by galore factors including evolving AI models, competing content, freshness signals, and shifts successful personification demand,” Microsoft wrote.

Here is what it looks like:

Why we care. While we still do not person click and click-through complaint data, Microsoft keeps adding much and much to its AI capacity reports.

I americium hopful that 1 time we will get click data, but I americium still not expecting to spot that from Google aliases Microsoft immoderate clip soon.

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