Bing Decision Engine Goes Live
ADVERTISEMENTSMicrosoft launched its new decision engine Bing and it is live for public from today (June 1 2009). Microsoft’s Live search engine is replaced by Bing decision engine, which gives you search results for the given keyword, similar to Live search engine.
According to our analysis Bing decision engine is not much smarter in generating search results, when compared to Google search engine. Though Bing is in beta stage we cannot guess how far it will be effective than Google search engine, when Bing comes out of beta.

Bing decision engine provides some advanced features to navigate the search results in a better way.
Summary Text :
Summary text a beautiful feature which gives more detail about search results in a popup summary in right side of the search result as shown below picture and navigation links inside the popup summary for search results.

Related Searches :
Bing provides related search results for the searched keyword, for instance if your searching for the keyword “Microsoft” bing provides search results for “Microsoft” and related searches like Microsoft Downloads, Microsoft updates etc.

RSS Feeds for Search Results :
Bing provides RSS feeds for search results, where users can subscribe for RSS feeds for their search keyword. To grab this RSS feed for search results just insert &format=rss at the end of URL.
For example : http://www.bing.com/search?q=tothetech&format=rss

Best match and Advanced search :
Bing provides best match search results and advanced search results which makes more easier to search for a specified keyword as shown below picture.

Save and Share your search results :
Bing allows you to save and share your search results with your friends using Windows live account.
Video Seach Results :
Bing video search results are smarter than Google video search results. After searching for particular video, Bing video search results playbacks the video thumbnail when mouse kept on the video.

You can also search videos for particular length, Screen resolution or from a different source.
X-Rank :
Bing provides famous celebrities in your location it may be politicians, actors or actress, just check out X-Rank.

Image Search
Bing image search gets smarter than Google image search, you can search images in sizes, layouts, colors, styles and pepole.

Maps
Bing maps formely (Live Maps) which doesn’t have any changes in their services other than design and look.
Searching Population and Exchange rate
Bing search engine can be used for calculating exchange rates for different countries and find out the public informations like population in a country or state etc..

Exchange Rate





June 4th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
it seems like Microsoft should stick with one name for their search engine functionality so that it has a chance to turn into a recognizable brand