Bing is a search engine from Microsoft officially announced on May 28

On looks alone, Bing is not dramatically different from Google. There are however some visible changes:

* Bing shows a preview of the web pages in the search results when you hover your mouse pointer at the right side of the search results.

* Bing displays fewer results if it is certain that it has understood your intent. The search for "Facebook", for example, brings up just one result linking to the site itself.

* Some search results are divided into categories. For example, if you search for the popular musicians "Oasis", you'll get results in the categories news, songs, movies, biography, wallpaper and downloads. In addition, the search results show images, videos and the popularity of the musician.

* Despite the background image, Bing's homepage loads very quickly in your web browser because the search box and logo load first. You can turn off the background image.

* Wikipedia searches can be displayed inline in the search results without leaving the Bing site by clicking the "Enhanced view" link.

Bing's video search lets you watch videos without leaving the search engine.

* Bing offers specific health, shopping and travel search engines, as well as instant answers to travel searches. For instance, the search "London hotels" displays a selection of hotels in Las Vegas, including hotel stars and prices.

* Bing's search history lets you return to your most recent searches of the last two days. This feature can be turned off to protect your privacy.

* Bing features a different background image every day. The image contains special hidden hotspots that lead you to more information (soon advertising?) about the image.

* Some of Google's features are missing, for example, Bing doesn't seem to recognize misspellings and returns no results in these cases.

How Microsoft BING differs from the LIVE / MSN searches in terms of the Algorithm will become evident following further testing. We ourselves are carrying out significant tests against BING in comparison to Google and yahoo to see if there have been any significant updates. What this space…..