Microsoft’s Live Search is now ‘Bing’

Microsoft Corp. unveiled Bing, a new Decision Engine and consumer brand. Micorsoft’s Live search is no more. So next time you open Live.com, don’t be surprised seeing redirected to Bing.com!


Bing is specifically designed to build on the benefit’s of today’s search engines but begins to move beyond this experience with a new approach to user experience and intuitive tools to help customers make better decisions, focusing initially on four key vertical areas: making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business.

Top Features

Auto-Suggest – Offers intelligent alternatives for search queries
Instant Answers – Serves up information within search results, eliminating the need to click on anything
Best Match – Provides useful links and information for definitive sites
Related Searches – Points to deeper information available with one click
Deep Links – Enables easy, direct access to relevant content within a site
Quick View – Summarizes a Web site at a glance, before clicking through to the site
Smart Video Preview – Previews a 30-second clip of videos simply by scrolling onto them
Infinite Scroll – Provides easily browsed image results without clicking to a new page
Quick Tabs – Tailors search results with one click

More Features

Quick Preview of the websites which appears as pop up besides the search results

Session History remembers your queries within a single browser session for up to 48 hours.

Using My Search Folders view, you can also save your searches in a local folder on your machine for future reference or to your Windows Live SkyDrive folders (when logged into Bing with your Windows Live ID), where you can access them from any computer with Internet access.
Easily share your saved searches on Facebook, with your Windows Live contacts, or through e-mail simply by clicking on the icons on your My Search Folders page.
Images can be filtered by size, aspect ratio, color, style and face etc

Video can be filtered by duration, aspect ratio, resolution or source etc
User can refine the search using Search Refinement functionality