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UPDATE: For some reason when I first wrote this page, the space bar didnt seem to work very well, still all updated now, enjoy

Bing is fast emerging as the new buzzword in internet. This search engine from Microsoft has found favors with a large number of internet users, which has contributed to its popularity as a major search engine of all times. The search engine was launched by Steve Ballmer Microsoft CEO in May, 2009 in San Diego at the ATD conference. In June, 2009 it went online; and since then it has received tremendous response from users across the world. The search engine has also earned a few nicknames; most notable among them is because its not google.

Formerly MSN Search, Live Search and Window Live Search, the search engine has gone through several notable changes and presented itself in a completely new look. While some people may perceive it as old wine in new bottle, Bing is a lot more than what it might seem. Prominent changes include listing search suggestion as query is entered as well as list of the related searches based on the semantic technology that was purchased by Microsoft in 2008. Another feather in the cap was added in July, 2009,when Microsoft entered a deal with Yahoo!, whereby, Yahoo! Search would be powered by Bing.

Bing or if you might say because its not google boasts of several interesting features,such as daily change in the background image and Sub links. As it is, the images mostly consist of pictures of famous places across the world, although it may at times display people, animals, or sports. Apart from that, the background images also contain information in regard to the element(s) displayed in the images. It also features a navigation pane on the left side, which includes navigation as well as, prior searches and related searches on the results pages. You also have an extended preview on the right side that displays a broader view of pages and gives the URLs to the links in thepage. The sublinks feature on the other hand displays section links in the articles in some search results. Also in case of certain sites, the customer care service numbers would be displayed in the results. One can also view third party website information inside Bing. This gives you an enhanced view.

The search engine also boasts of several media features as well. One of the most interesting features in this regard is the Videos thumbnail Preview wherein, a video startsplaying automatically when the cursor hovers over the video thumbnail. Moreover, the images search with constant scrolling image results page has modifiable settings for color, layout, size, style as well as people. Videos search with modifiable settings for screen size, length, resolution as well as source happens to be another interesting feature. All these features make watching videos a truly wonderful experience. It further saves your time as well as efforts.

Many people may find the instant answers features to be the most useful among all other features. If you are a sports freak, then Bing is the place to visit. It can directly show scores of a specific game, recent scores of leagues, as well as scores or statistics of players or teams. Similarly, people involved in the financial sector, especially stock market investors should also find these features quite interesting. While entering a stock symbol or company name and quote or stock in search box, direct stocks information such as stock charts, prices, p/e ratio and volume is shown in the web-slice which users may subscribe to. For exporters or importers, the package tracking or tracing feature can be very useful.

With its help you can get tracking information directly, by entering thename or other details of shipping company, such as tracking number.
One can also do math calculations as well. All that you need to do is, to enter the math expressions into the search box, with the help of the math operators or trigonometric functions, and within no time, you will get the direct calculations of the expressions.This includes advanced and complex computations as well. You can also make use of the dictionary feature to improve your vocabulary or just knowing the meaning of aparticular word. The spell check feature can also be very helpful in this regard. Bestmatch, Product shopping, Bing cashback, Health information, Flight tracking and Translate are some other interesting instant answers features of because its not google.

Along with that, you can get a lot of local info as well, such as Current traffic data,Business listings, People listings, Collections, Restaurant reviews, City hotel listing, as well as movies that are played in a particular area. Now, if you are a movie buff, then this feature could be very appealing to you. All you need to do is to enter a movie titleand you would get information in regard to the various local theaters, where the moviethe movie is being shown. Moreover, Bing is also integrated with Hotmail and Facebook,which is another major feature.

So, start using Bing and get an amazing searching experience. Why? Simple; because its not google.

 


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Bing – Future Search Engine

A screenshot of the Bing home page from www.bing.com

Bing, its new, sexy and graphically nice search engine from microsoft. Will the results live up to the fine visuals?

For those who are ardent fans of Google or Yahoo may ask what does bing stand for. If you are also among them then certainly you have missed something great in last two years. You have completely missed an interesting experience of making new searches in no time. Bing is great new search engine growing rapidly providing popular services.Reports have already shown its rising popularity and the positive response it is receiving from users. Its quality has made all difference.
What Does Bing Stand For?

Bing is another popular web search engine which has acquired an enviable 12.8 % share of market by acquiring sizable users market of Google and Yahoo. Formerly, it was known as Live search, Windows Live search and MSN search was finally launched in2009 by Microsoft. In a span of less then three years it has gained popularity among the masses and is growing steadily.

Bing’s Journey

Bing’s current state is a result of successful journey search engine kept on improving with different names. In 1998 Microsoft launched a search engine known as MSN Search which comprises index, search engine, & web crawler. It was being upgraded by the Microsoft and its index was being updated time to time. Continuing its modifications it soon came out with Windows Live Search homepage in 2006. This search engine used search tabs like web, news, music, images, local, and desktop. It is finally took the shape of Bing in 2009 and enjoying its new status.

Bing Features

Its services have gained the users attention very nicely and they are entirely mesmerized with its features. It offers daily background image change which comprise of sports,people and animals. Its sublinks, customer service number on results page and others are all have been very fine. Its media features video thumbnail preview which automatically plays video. Its image search which can be adjusted to different layout, size, color, people and style. It has video search with adjustable settings for screen size, resolution andsource. Any information you want to know in sports, finance and another topic then it is going to provide you the best available information within no time.
One can find scores of any day, stock information and even math calculations withoutany fault. One can track and trace their package with this quite conveniently. It offers online dictionary which carries meaning to all latest words and its spell check providesan error free written piece. One can go for the products shopping (Bing Cashback), flight tracking, health information and translation. More over any kind of local information can also be availed without any fault. Get all information like business, people listing,current traffic, restaurant review, weather, entertainment and others. It has integration
with hotmail and face book also which provides results instantly to the users. These features making it popular among the users and very soon it is also going to see some more attractions also which will add another freedom to the users.

Bing Searches

It offers searches in the wide variety of subjects and the users can avail information on any topics of subjects like Entertainments, health, events, medstory, images, maps andothers. In the dictionary you can get all the details related to the words and can evenlisten to its right pronunciation. Its entertainment offers the users information regarding movies, music TV shows, and video games. One can enjoy Bong online games also. WithBing Events you are going to get the details regarding the events like their timing, venue and others. Its Bing Finance offers the users to find exchange stocks, company profileand all latest developments available with the stock market. Even one can get the pastdetails about any stock or indices. Its stock screener is another useful step for you.

With Bing Health one can get all details regarding medical concepts and get all information related to it. It contains all latest articles being written by the experts andothers. Its Bing Images option helps the users to get all relevant photos quickly. It also features like aspect ratio, color or black & white photo and illustration and others.
Local Bing Local helps the users in getting all details related to local business listingswith business details and reviews, allowing users to make more informed decisions. Bing Maps help the user to look for addresses, businesses, street names, landmarks and street names across the world.
This also offers one to select from road-map, a satellite or a hybrid view. It also offers bird’s-eye images of many cities across the world and 3D maps with virtual 3D navigation and others. All one has to do is to select a topic and Bing is ready top share its invaluable information with you. As has been mentioned getting information on any topic can not be tough and the users can enjoy getting it. With wide options available certainlyit is appealing to users. As far as features are concerned it is set to give the Google a run for their money. The users are the best judge.

Even the latest reports have shown that Bing has managed to win a sizable market share with its features and the everyday new users are joining hands with it. So, if you want to experience something exciting then you need to log on to the Bing and start your search now. Once you begin then trust us you will not be able to resists its use. So join the Search Engine of tomorrow and make your search experience a pleasure. Think Ahead of Yahoo and Google!!


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Bing – A search engine born from failure | Because its not google

Because Its Not Google – discussion

What does “bing” stand for?

A screenshot of the Bing home page from www.bing.com

Bing, its new, sexy and graphically nice search engine from microsoft. Will the results live up to the fine visuals?

I never knew this and am not 100% sure it’s true but I think it stands to reason.  I was told that Microsoft came up with the name “bing” during a survey of its employees.  It is supposed to stand for “because it’s not Google”.  Take the first letters and you get BING.

Why does “bing” exists?

Microsoft have played around in the search market for many years,  During the 90’s Microsoft had a search engine called MSN (Microsoft Search Network).  There is still some things hanging around from the days when search was pretty equal between MSN, Yahoo, Lycos, Altavista etc.  There were lots of players in the market and everyone started scrambling for dominance.  Microsoft introduced MSN messenger and Yahoo also introduced its own messenger.  At this point in time everything was looking good for the computer giants Microsoft.

Then Google emerged with what was and still is the best search engine algorithm.  The results, speed and simple user interface gained popularity every day until it now became the giant of today.  Everybody loved Google, a couple of guys started this, they were not a huge corporation and they had no business in tailoring search to suit them so trust swung towards Google. There was no need at this point for because its not google (bing)

Microsoft and Yahoo were the only real search engines left to fight the mighty Google machine on its quest to become total dominance.  Microsoft released a new flavour of its revamped search as “live.com” and Yahoo set about trying to dominate the US search market of which it is still doing very well.  Google started to dominate search engine marketing (AdWords, the ads down the right hand side of the search engine results pages) with this movement Yahoo and Microsoft also took this challenge on.  However the Google dominance was now raking in millions in profit so it set about playing within other peoples market, namely Microsoft.

Google release a free email system, a full web based office suit, chat applications, places to host your own website and more recently a social system named “buzz”.  Google has taken aim at Microsoft trying to steal users from its hotmail platform and its totally dominant Office suite (word, excel, PowerPoint), and to be honest it has done very well.  As people become more comfortable saving their documents in the “cloud” it is gaining momentum all of the time.

A screenshot of the internet browser from Google

Chrome was a breath of fresh air, fast, reliable and simple

Not content with taking the search market and office dominance from Microsoft, Google has recently moved into mobile phone software which is gaining ground on Apples iPhone and Microsoft’s windows mobile operating systems and guess what it’s not doing bad at all and Google is leveraging it’s huge corporate appeal with mobile manufactures to push the “android” operating system to as many handsets as possible.  To really try to put the nail in the coffin Google has recently announced that it is going to be releasing an operating system called “chrome OS” the same name as the browser you can use from Google.

Some people at this point in time were becoming restless with the Google train and it wouldnt be long before the market would be crying out for a search engine that did not belong to Google.  In an early incubation phase  because its not google (bing) was born.

So here is the problem now for Google

Google’s squeaky clean image during its rapid growth is now beginning to become tarnished, there is a growing feeling that Google are infringing on privacy and it now has the corporate mentality and desire to take over the word. Was now the right time for  because its not google (bing)?  Google seems to be playing or will become players in every single technology related item.  Which of course is where Microsoft was all of those years ago.  With Google basically crushing Yahoo and Live search engines they have joined forces in search engine marketing.  With the growing concern that people do not want to use just Google for everything the term “bing” was born. Now ladies and gentlemen we give you  because its not google (bing).

People are happy to join the because its not google (bing) following because people just do not like dominance and Google are heading straight for world domination.  Do I like it?  Probably I am happy at the moment with Google I like the applications they create and although the search algorithm is being found out and manipulated a little it still brings me the best results for search and I do love the chrome browser.

What will happen in the future?

Hey, I do not have a crystal ball but everything on this earth goes round in circles, the mighty get mighty and then they fall.  Then they come back.  I actually think that Google has its spidery fingers in many pies at the moment and some shrewd management will need to take precedence over expansion to keep the Google train moving.  If we take the train analogy I can see Google is not at top speed yet but its acceleration has started to drop.  It’s good news for everyone that Yahoo and Microsoft are sharing some knowledge to try and take the fight to Google with  because its not google (bing), however they have tried and failed on many occasions.

Perhaps it’s time for a new player in the market, the only way you can get into the search engine game is going to be providing useful features or specifying a particular category to dominate first and then expand.  As a search engine lives and dies depending on its ability to return relevant results anyone trying to catch up Google in this market space has a long way to go.  It has been estimated that Google have spent nearly 2.6 billion hours of research using very clever people to get this far.  It is certainly not going to be easy.

This was a short story on how  because its not google (bing) was formed.


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