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On June 2nd 2026, it was announced that Bing would serve as the foundation for a new search engine called Web IQ. According to the announcement: <blockquote>"Web IQ is a search engine for AI systems. Where Bing was built to help people search the web, Web IQ is built to help AI agents find the right information, turn it into useful evidence, and use it inside reasoning. Unlike other APIs that layer on top of fragile infrastructure, Web IQ is a new kind of search system, one that delivers the right evidence with the speed, quality, and efficiency modern agents require."</blockquote> And on the subject of maintaining trust:<blockquote>Web IQ inherits Bing’s long-standing commitment to the conventions and evolving standards of the internet ecosystem, including honoring robots exclusion protocols, publisher controls, and access preferences that govern how content can be discovered, accessed, and used. We are actively engaging with the broader ecosystem through the IETF and other industry forums to help evolve interoperable standards for the AI era. Our goal is to be a sincere and trusted participant in the open web — one that respects publisher choice and helps sustain a healthy ecosystem for content providers, advertisers, developers, and users alike.</blockquote><ref>{{Cite web |date=2 Jun 2026 |title=Announcing Microsoft Web IQ |first=Knut |last=Risvik |url=https://blogs.bing.com/search/June-2026/Announcing-Microsoft-Web-IQ |url-status=live |website=blogs.bing.com |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260622125246/https://blogs.bing.com/search/June-2026/Announcing-Microsoft-Web-IQ |archive-date=22 Jun 2026}}</ref>