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June 01, 2009

Binging Down the House

Microsoft’s new search engine Bing is now live for users to test drive. Though labeled a “preview”, the search site is fully functional and all live.com search requests are being re-directed to Bing.

Bing's interface is clean and easy to use, and so far the general consensus is that Bing has a lot of interesting and helpful features to help improve your search experience, like help finding airfares on the results page, instant answers to common questions, quick previews of Web content and more reliable health information. I think that the best feature is the Video search. When you place your mouse cursor over a video search result and Bing will play back the video in thumbnail mode within the search results page.There are no reports on Bing's accessibility, but if any readers have tested it with various AT, leave me a comment.

Click the link below to take Bing for test-drive.
http://www.bing.com/