bing
Despite my being a little critical of Microsoft sometimes I like to give them a very fair chance to prove themselves. As part of that I have decided to change all of my Internet searching over to the new Microsoft Search engine “Bing”. It’s official date if launch is still 2 days away but is available now in many parts of the world.
Bing is Microsoft’s latest attempt to grab a larger portion of the Search Engine market. At this point it appears as if it is more than a re-branded “Live.com” even though Live now redirects to Bing.com. There are many subtle changes and a few bing ones that actually make Bing very usable and an upgrade to Google.
One of my favorite new features is the search history bar on the left side of the page. It can be very useful when you search multiple times for the same things. There is also a very unobtrusive page preview option that is easy to use and shows a nice summary of the pages content. This is much better when compared to the random paragraph that Google displays.
Even if you are in love with Google now is a good time to try Bing.
I have been using Bing.com since I saw that it had become available to me this morning.
I am quite impressed actually. I did not really use Live search very often (read Never), but I can actually see myself using Bing. There are a few niceties there like the integration of TripAdvisor, and I have always liked their image search more than Google’s.
Definitely worth a try or two.