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Bing Adds Impressive, Advanced Recipe Search Results - bing - Li. @v1nce: No way is that true, that Bing's image search better. Google allows filters by 12 specific colors, besides B/W or color options, and Google adds specific filters for line drawings and clip art. In addition, Google has extensive parameter settings for sizes of images whereas Bing only has 4.

@gerrrg: Nope, that kind of feature by feature breakdown is commonly used by iPhone naysayers but the truth is that the Bing image search brings up better images, more tightly focused to the parameter. Try it. @gerrrg: Bing image search endlessly scrolls image thumbnails without having to click a single NEXT link all the time. @v1nce: BING: Color / B&W GOOGLE: Color/B&W/One of 12 specific colors to filter by BING: Small/Medium/Large/Wallpaper GOOGLE: Any/Icon/Medium/Large/Larger than... / Exactly... BING: Faces/Head and shoulders / Illustration / Photograph GOOGLE: Face/Photo/Clip art /Line drawing That is what I call greater diversity of search options than Bing. Google This: 5 Reasons to Switch to Bing. Bing is now the fastest growing search engine. A Nielsen report shows that it currently holds 10.7% of the search market (to Google's 65%), but its month-over-month growth is 22%, which is astronomical.

Microsoft has been pumping an endless supply of dollars into its marketing and advertising initiatives around Bing, and the strategy is clearly paying off. Hype aside, Bing happens to be a very viable search alternative to Google, and offers several incentives that Google can't compete with at the moment. Here we'll break down 5 awesome Bing-specific features that are really growing on us. From insightful information to help us better plan our trips to cashback on purchases, and a visually stimulating or Twitter-enhanced search experience, we're starting to think Bing has some zing. 1.

Travel Insight Bing's Travel offering is quite nice for two cost-saving consumer-friendly reasons: farecast technology and airfare deals. 2. 3. 4. 5. BingTweets: Microsoft Launches a Twitter Search Engine. Microsoft, in cooperation with Federated Media and Twitter, launched its own full-blown Twitter search engine today. BingTweets mashes up real-time Twitter search with results from Bing, Microsoft's new and increasingly popular search engine. The result is an interesting hybrid product that puts Bing's search results at the center of the experience, while the real-time Twitter feed appears in a sidebar on the left.

The top of the page features a list of trending topics, which are quite interesting, as BingTweets separates them out by popular terms, as well as by popular people, places, and products. Disclosure: Federated Media is a ReadWriteWeb advertising partner. Microsoft started to integrate some Twitter search results with the main Bing search engine a few weeks ago, but these were only from very popular Twitter users. State of the Art - Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Bet. Bing vs. Google.