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Year 2009 is proving to be a good year for Microsoft. First was the awesome Windows 7 (which is there on my to-blog list) followed by it’s latest search engine Bing http://www.bing.com. With Bing, MS is seriously looking to eat into rival Google’s marketshare. Within 10 days of it’s launch, Bing has already crossed Yahoo to the 2nd rank in search engine marketspace. I have already replaced Bing as my default search provider in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

To get straight to the facts. Why should you switch over to Bing?

Bing has come on par, if not better, with Google in terms of the interface, search results & the speed
Bing will display the categories, related searches and the search history on the left.

Bing Video search makes it possible to play videos directly on the results page and also offers a plethora of options on the target video’s duration, screensize, resolution and the source.

Bing’s image search displays image results on an infinite scrolling page with options to filter images by size, layout, color, style or people

Bing’s image search has the ability to display only wallpaper images in the image search results. This is done by searching for a term in Bing image search and clicking on the Size category in the left sidebar. It will automatically display various size filters including one called wallpaper. This will display only images that have the exact size of the computer screen resolution.
The parameter contains will tell the search engine to only look for websites that contain that search term

Bing’s Best Match & Deep Links feature is designed to make finding relevant information easier by cutting down the number of clicks and getting you to your final destination faster. Results include customer service numbers for retail sites, the ability to track a package right from the search page, deep links to common pages within the site and much more.