10 Things To Learn About Microsoft Bing

Bing, Microsoft's latest attempt to topple Google and Yahoo, is set to be launched on the 3rd of June in the UK but it is already available in beta mode. We went through the website and here are ten things we learnt about Microsoft's decision engine.

(1) Bing's homepage is 47 percent heavier than Google's at 37.3KB. This is significantly less than Yahoo the homepage (470KB), Yahoo the search engine (75KB) or Wolfram Alpha (212KB). This means faster loading times in most cases compared to the rest of the competition - but not Google.

(2) Bing, by default, identifies your geographical location and in our case, got it very close. Geo-location is very important to get relevant results within a close distance. This is something that Google has yet to achieve.

(3) Unlike Google, Shopping and maps are not properly integrated into Bing. Shopping is still handled by Ciao while Maps is managed by Multimap, both of which have been acquired by Microsoft.

(4) Live, Microsoft's older searcn engine iteration, still lives. Currently, Bing is still labelled as Live Search and has yet to be updated. Looking for Bing for example in the Live Search Help section brings no results.