Well, here’s how you can quickly enable Bing Visual Search in your browser.

Go to bing.com/worldwide and set your country as United States. Save the settings and you will then be able to enjoy the visual search feature of Bing at bing.com/visualsearch. Probably, Microsoft has limited the feature to US for the moment.

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For instance, you can open the book section, scroll through the popular book covers (they are sorted by name by default) and then narrow the search results based on the author name, the category of the book or even the length (number of pages). You can further sort this resultset based on the book’s release date or the sales rank of that book.

Bing’s Visual Search includes an awesome interface for finding apps for your iPhone or iPod Touch without firing up the iTunes Apps store.

Go to Top iPhone Apps, narrow down your search results by category (Productivity, Games, Office, etc), choose whether you are looking for free app or paid ones (and if so, you can also specify the price range) and there you have all the apps that you may be looking for.

Yoga Poses are another interesting feature of Bing. Basically you can narrow down search results to yoga poses that help in the ailment of particular diseases or poses that are beneficial for different body parts (arms, heart, etc.).

Then you have travel destinations to help you plan your next family vacation.

You can not only filter places visually based on countries and on months when you are planning to take a break. And if things look a bit confusing, just choose the “Most popular on Bing” option to just see places that are most popular on the web.

If you don’t have the Silverlight plugin on your computer yet, it’s time to get one else you’ll miss using something that not only beautiful but very useful as well.

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What’s new with Bing?

• With Bing, you could view instant excerpts that will allow you to see the contents of a page without actually clicking on it. Simply hover your mouse and read the gist.
• It displays a sidebar detailing all related searches.

• Bing allows you to preview videos in search results, which is a great time-saver. By choosing their “list view” option you could get a gist of the video and check if that was the one you were looking for.

• Bing offers an exclusive travel search option as well with the help of which you could easily plan trips, book flights, get instant flight status, find the right hotels, etc.

The Full Version of Bing?

Not everyone can view the full version of Bing. Outside of North America, other localized versions of Bing are missing some features, like search history options, some interactive features on home page, image saving options, etc. You could view the the full version of Bing by going to the US (English) version.

Click here to discover Bing’s versions of worldwide search.

Microsoft is currently way behind Google in the search market. Last month Google took 64.2 % of US Internet searches, Yahoo took 20.4 % of searches, while Microsoft took 8.2 % of searches.

Microsoft is calling its new product a “decision engine,” promising to make things like buying a digital camera, booking a flight or searching for a restaurant easier by serving up results based on similar previous searches.

It will be very interesting to see how the market reacts to Bing in the coming few weeks. Bing results are definitely more relevant than Microsoft’s inferior Live search.
I personally like Bing and would consider using it as my search engine over Google. What is your feedback on Bing?

Link: Bing

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When it comes to getting a site indexed, you can accomplish that very quickly in Google, Yahoo is slower, and Bing is oftentimes the slowest, from my experience. Bing will eventually find your site if you are doing any kind of regular SEO or link building.

If you are looking to get indexed in Bing, quickly, then I found a few ways that seems to work, and I thought I’d share it with members of this forum. I’ve gained much knowledge reading the threads here, so it’s my time to give a little.

Ways to Get Indexed in Bing as quick as possible

1. Exchange links with another site, indexed in Bing, that is PR4 or above. Bing spiders will regularly be visiting a PR4 site, so you should get one to your site by doing this. But, this exchange of links is not always the easiest to accomplish. You can check to see if a site is indexed in any of the 3 search engines by typing “url:www.mysite.com” (no quotation marks) into their search bar.

2. Submit your site to Bing at http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx. I’ve heard that this page goes down from time to time, but it’s worth a shot. Submit, and if it is still not indexed in a week, submit it again, but wait at least a week. You don’t want to overdue and have that hurt your indexing.

3. This method appears to be the fastest. Go to MSN.com, click on “MyMSN” on the homepage. Sign up for a free account. You do not even have to sign up for a or have a hotmail address. You can use your already existing email address. Once you have your MSN account confirmed, go to http://my.msn.com. Locate the “favorites” section of the page, then click on “menu” of the “favorites” section. A drop menu will appear. Click “change details.” At that point you can enter any URL you wish and pick the anchor text you desire. Now you have a link in Bing. Should get some spider activity, quickly.

That’s it. Hope it helps

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Microsoft has released the Bing Toolbox, a new portal for all you Bing webmasters, publishers, developers, and advertisers.

With the Bing Toolbox Microsoft is looking to provide website owners with the resources necessary to adapt their websites and online applications to Bing.

Bing Toolbox enables website owners to easily submit their URLs to be indexed by the search engine. At the same time, the portal enables the submission of sitemap files and access to the Bing webmaster tools. For developers looking to use Bing as a platform, the Toolbox allows them to get an AppID, the first step on leveraging the Bing application programming interface (API).

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