Microsoft Gives Websites More Control Over Content In Bing Chat
انتشار: شهریور 31، 1402
بروزرسانی: 24 خرداد 1404

Microsoft Gives Websites More Control Over Content In Bing Chat

The tech giant aims to address concerns raised by publishers while allowing website discovery through regular search results.

Addressing Publisher Concerns

As Microsoft continues to work with the industry on future AI standards, it’s committed to maintaining open communication with publishers and the web ecosystem.

To ensure that paywall articles are discoverable, Microsoft suggests adding the NOCACHE value to the NOARCHIVE value, as most paywall sites use only the NOARCHIVE tag.

Fabrice Canel, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, states:

Microsoft announced new options for publishers to limit their content use in Bing’s new AI-powered chatbot feature.

Following discussions with web admins and publishers, Microsoft understood the need for more control over using their content in Bing Chat.

“We are pleased to share that we have built on standard controls that webmasters use today to control indexing and snippet length on Bing.”

Enhanced Control for Publishers

“We can assure publishers that content with the NOCACHE tag or NOARCHIVE tag will still appear in our search results.”

Looking Ahead

While discussions with the industry are ongoing, Microsoft decided to provide immediate support to address the publishers’ concerns.

Since Microsoft unveiled its revamped Bing search engine with chatbot capabilities, publishers have voiced concerns about using their content without permission.

Publishers can control how Bing Chat uses their content by utilizing the following options:

  • Taking no action means the content may be included in Bing Chat answers and used to train Microsoft’s AI models.
  • Adding a NOCACHE tag means only titles, snippets, and URLs can appear in Bing Chat or train AI models.
  • Adding a NOARCHIVE tag prevents any usage in Bing Chat or AI training.

In response to publisher concerns, Microsoft is enabling existing meta tags to restrict content usage in Bing Chat answers.

Publishers now have several ways to control their content, each impacting how it’s used in Bing Chat and AI models.

For more details, publishers are encouraged to read Microsoft’s documentation on meta tags.


Microsoft promises to give web admins reasonable time to adapt and migrate to future AI standards.

Canel stresses that content blocked from Bing Chat won’t be blocked from search:

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