Microsoft has been playing hard with its search
engine platform, Bing and never-the-less it has been successful since
its launch in 2009 by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. With a current market
share of 18%, Bing Search has been in the ranking chart for a while
topped by the Search engine jargon Google. Recently, the company rolled
out more updates to its desktop version of search, Bing Desktop. The
desktop client was earlier updated with Facebook integration last March
along with support for Windows XP and more languages back in December.
Bing desktop has taken a step ahead this time with some really interesting updates, which includes
tossing of Facebook notifications when the user gets any, including
messaging, as well as in-line search and a few other changes. The
in-line search allows user to perform any Bing search from the web. The
feature also works in regular webpage as well as any other document
formats including Word files where in highlighting the keyword and
clicking on the Bing icon in the application will generate search
results. The desktop app has also been renovated with new designs and
improvements to make it more fast and functional.
Another
major update, the Facebook notification, also came as a much needed
feature for any desktop application. The notification alert is similar
to the current Facebook notification, with a red flag popping out
intimating user about a news feed update. Bing has also updated its news
feed feature with a few layout changes.
And
finally, a new weather app has been included into the desktop app which
provides real time weather information about the places as selected by
user. The weather app can also be pulled up with a single click, doing
which it refreshes the data to show the exact weather report at that
moment.
In a nutshell, the recent updates has
jazzed up Bing desktop from its earlier version and it’ll be very
interesting to see how other players enhance their tools to compete with
the much improved app from Microsoft.
Source : Bing
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