Bing has been up to A LOT over the last few weeks. Below is a round up of all things BING!
- Bing Goes Live in the UK
- Bing Integrates Wolfram Alpha
- Bing Updates Home Page with Task-Focused Functionality
- Bing Adds Instant Answers
- Bing Adds Additional Additional City Data (attractions, neighborhoods, local data from newspapers, etc.)
- Bing Upgrades Preview Feature
- Bing Adds Event Search (sort by performances, civic activities, music, etc.)
- Bing Integrates Facebook and Twitter into Search Results
- Bing Updates Maps
And that is just to name a few of the recent upgrades.
Well, if we look at the new data from Hitwise, Bing had a 7% gain in October, while Google and Yahoo both lost 1%.
I think Bing is really trying hard to be a serious competitor to Google — and it is working.
Check out Bing today – Bing Search.
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For the past few years, amidst the banter of market share and who needs to buy who, I continued to think the biggest difference will come when one of the engines finally focuses on their own advertising and PR as at the end of the day they need to convince us as individuals to change our own search behavior and choices. Bing’s advertising is definitely refreshing, as well as helping MSFT’s presence.