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Bing’s Best Features are the Ones You Didn’t Know Existed on Live Search

If you weren’t using Live Search (and let’s face it, most of you weren’t) then you’re likely to be a little more impressed than you should be with Bing. Sure, Bing has great new features, but Live Search featured a bunch of cool stuff and you’ll be kicking yourself when you realize you haven’t been using them.

Image Search infinite scrolling means you never have to click to another page when you’re searching for photos and graphics. The more you scroll, the more Live Search and now Bing keeps loading images related to your search.

A myriad of filtering options also accompanies Image Search, including size, color, layout and style.

Video search preview lets users mouse over video results and get a 30-second preview directly in the results.

ClearFlow is a mapping feature that offers up alternative routes when there’s heavy traffic.

Local search is very comprehensive. If you conduct a general search for say, coffee shop, as you scroll down the results page, the map on the right sidebar scrolls with you. Once you click on a result, you get one-click directions, reviews, and nearby business categories. If you search for a restaurant, you’ll see a visual scorecard letting which summarizes reviews the eatery has received.

“Microsoft’s newly revamped search tool Bing has already overtaken Yahoo in the US and globally, according to StatsCounter. The net traffic watcher said Bing has topped Yahoo 16.28% to 10.22% in the US, and 5.62% to 5.13% globally. Though the firm noted Bing’s popularity may drop off after the excitement wears off, the firm also said: “Steve Ballmer is quoted as saying that he wanted Microsoft to become the second biggest search engine within five years. Following the breakdown in talks to acquire Yahoo at a cost of $40 billion it looks as if he may have just achieved that with Bing much sooner and a lot cheaper than anticipated.” Google, of course, still leads by a considerable margin.”

One stats firm has said Microsoft’s Bing has already beaten its rival Yahoo, just a week after launch.

Bing has already outranked Yahoo in the search stakes, according to one net stats firm.

StatCounter said it took just days for Microsoft’s recently revamped search to overtake it’s rival – and former acquisition target – Yahoo, with Bing taking 16.28 per cent of the US market to Yahoo’s 10.22 per cent by the end of last week. Google still holds 71.47 per cent.

Globally, Bing held 5.62 per cent of the market, just pipping Yahoo at 5.13 per cent. Both are miles behind Google’s 87.62 per cent, however.

“It remains to be seen if Bing falls away after the initial novelty and promotion but at first sight it looks like Microsoft is on to a winner,” said Aodhan Cullen, chief executive of StatCounter, in a statement on the site’s blog.

Fellow web stat firm Net Applications noted last week that Bing hit six per cent market share within hours of launch, pulling it’s piece of the pie away from “legacy search engines, Google, Yahoo and elsewhere,” the firm said.

Launching Bing last week, the software giant said that Yahoo’s second place ranking was its main target – no surprise after Microsoft failed in its bid to buy Yahoo, or even just its search, last year.

“Steve Ballmer is quoted as saying that he wanted Microsoft to become the second biggest search engine within five years,” said Cullen. “Following the breakdown in talks to acquire Yahoo at a cost of $40 billion it looks as if he may have just achieved that with Bing much sooner and a lot cheaper than anticipated.”