Bing is a new incarnation of the Microsoft search engine, MSN live. Launched on May 28, 2009 by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, Bing has an advantage of several features over its predecessors. To begin with, on just going to the search engine website, you are greeted with a refreshing background image, bit of a reprieve for people who are bored with over-simplistic style of Google. We enlist some new features of Bing at the end of this article after we have discussed some relevant questions you may have about Bing.
Here is some intro on what Bing can do:
- Has the MSN's algorithm changed?
Yes. MSN's latest blog releases relating to Bing categorically mention a significant change in the algorithm over what was used for MSN live search. Microsoft's Caroline Miller responded to a similar query on Bing's search algorithm, "We have made numerous improvements to our algorithm, focusing on spelling, freshness of results, and core ranking. Our algorithm is changing continuously to provide the best results. Although we have a six month release cycle for major updates, our algorithm is refined everyday to improve the relevance of our results and to better address our users’ intent." Overall by the look and feel of it, there appears to be some change in the results returned by MSN, particularly in more number of local relevant results. - So, what all is new?
The interface, with a background image which changes frequently. Snapshot of site's content by just hovering mouse over search result. Video thumbnail preview, the video automatically starts playing by just hovering mouse over it. And lots more..
Bing features include:
- Daily changing of background image of places in the world that contains information you can view by hovering over the image.
- Video thumbnail Preview where, by hovering over a video thumbnail, the video automatically starts playing
- Content sectioning (separate section for wallpaper, map, weather, fansites and more)
- Sportsscores and statistics on Team and Players
- City hotel listings
- Business listing
- People listing
- Collections
- Financial quotes
- Car info
- Current traffic info
- Localized searching for restaurants and services
- Restaurant reviews
- Celebrity rankings (xRank)
- Celebrity news
- Movies played in area
- Left side navigation pane. Includes navigation and, on resultspages, related searches and prior searches
- Right side extended preview with list of relevant or important urls from within the article
- Sublinks. On certain search results, the search result page also shows sectionlinks within the article (Wikipedia)
- Enhanced view where third party site information can be viewed insite Bing. This works for Wikipedia pages
- Image search with continuous scrolling images results page that has adjustable settings for size, layout, color, style and people.
- Video search with adjustable setting for length, screen size, resolution and source
- Math calculations (2 * pi * 24)
- Intstant answers (What is the capitol of Germany ?)
- Best match (plus simular sites)
- Plane ticket info and flight status
- Product shopping and Bing Cashback (mayby all shopping feature require seperate section)
- Health info
- Package tracking and tracing
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