After passing through the phases of beta testing, finally, Microsoft launched their latest Search engine www.Bing.com replacing Live Search. People within Microsoft are optimistic that this would help them to retain some of their online traffic which they lost to Microsoft. The most exciting feature of Bing is that as according to geographical location Bing has different versions. Among all the versions of the Bing, it is US version that is provided with interactivity and exclusive features that soon would be provided h other versions of the Search Engine.

Following is the first hand review of the Search Engine Bing and unique characteristics it holds:

Interactive Homepage: Contrary to Google, home page of the search Engine is provided with lots of interactivity with a welcoming background image for the search engine.  On image while hovering mouse it would come up with small pop up widow showing some historical fact sheets about the image.

Web search: It is provided with ample user interactivity as on search while hovering mouse over the orange orb at the right side of the search you can have quick preview of the search.  On the left, on a column, search items are provided with list of the popular searches similar to your search terms.

Images search: In context to image search, Bing is just exceptional. Its image display requires minimum effort to look at view all the images. It instead of arranging the images in page, just open them on fly. It returns image from the database and show it on the screen. Image search also has another plenty of offers like customizing search results like as size, layout, color, style and people.

Video search: Bing video search let you to view short preview of the Video. Hovering mouse over the Video, it could bring short clip of the video. While clicking over the video link instead of bringing video site before you it loads Video as a frame within search result. After watching the video, you can continue with search after closing the video.

Shopping and Travel: The shopping and Travel section of the search engine has gone into long detail and returns product image, user ratings, price and Bing cashback percentages for shopping search for any product.  Bing cashback, feature only with Bing, lets get a percentage of the product’s cost back as a discount.

Web Slices: In case, you are exploring with IE8 you can create web slices from new pages or stocks charts for quick reference of info on slices.

Bing with a good number of features would definitely go to carve a niche place for itself among mass users.