Will Bing give Google reason to be concerned in the search game?
Microsoft Bing is now up and running. It’s Microsoft’s latest attempt at revamping the search industry and making a serious effort to actually compete with Google.
My brief use with Bing so far as a search engine is actually pretty good. I like the graphics and the info boxes you can hover over to get more information about the daily background image which is usually a collage of different facts related to the image.
As far as search goes, it offers the standard images, videos, shopping, news, maps, and a travel section. However several new features have been added to make searching faster. For example, when there are videos available for a particular search keyword, you can just mouse over each video thumbnail and it will play samples of that movie without you having to click through. This seems to make it faster to go through several videos real quick to find what you are looking for.
Also there is another mouse over orange dot with a vertical bar at the right hand side of each description that you can mouse over and it will show the beginning text on the page as well as other links on that page. That could definitely come in handy.
On the left hand side Bing shows search history and related searches. Which ought to prove to be helpful as well.
So that’s it for now, we will have to wait and see how Bing does. I will keep using it to see how relevant the search actually is and whether or not it’s going to be a serious contender in my book. However, so far, so good.