Things sure have been hopping at Bing lately. We’ve posted several items this week and have several more to add to this post. Plus, Bing has said more new services will be going before the end of the week. Here’s a review of what we’ve posted so far. Items that are bolded are ones we are posting for the first time here. We will begin on Monday and work are way to today.

+ Blog Post: “Bing’s Next Chapter Begins Today”
A review of what Bing has been up to along with the introduction of several new features.

Since June we’ve released a bunch of new stuff to try and meet the demands of our users – Twitter integration, Visual Search, Twitter Search, better maps [we love bird's eye imagery], and a host of user interface and index improvements.

NOTE: The following examples are not working (at least for us) as of 7:30pm EST. It’s going to take some time to roll-out all of these new feeatures. Also, it’s up to the user to determine if the results are actually improved compared to what they were before any changes were made. As these features become available we will update this page. Please check back and we will link to as many of these new features as possible. Plus, Bing has said to expect even more “new” features in the next few days.

+ New: Scroll over the world “travel” on the home page, click, and now you’re at a place to run travel-related queries

+ New: Smart Answer: Enter your origin, destination, travel dates, in the Bing search box, click, and your in Bing Travel

+ New: “Enhanced Results” for several hundred cities via Bing Travel. Direct links to neighborhood info, local newspapers, points of interest, etc.

+ New: “Enhanced Results” for a number of cities that also include “high-resolution slide shows”

+ New: Integration of images into some preview results. What’s a preview result? Run a Bing search and move your cursor to the right of any result and hover, a box should appear (as well as an orange dot). In the box you should get an idea of what’s on the page your hovering next to. You might also find contact info (e.g. telephone number), popular links based on your search terms, e-mail addresses, etc. Now, you’ll also see an image of the page for some results.

Much More After a Click

+ New: Event Search

You can now use our new event search feature, which provides a quick summary of events for major cities, which you can filter by categories like performances, civic activities, music and others.

It appears you can trigger an event search by entering the “city name” and the word “events.”

+ New Shopping Search Feature: Enter a product name and then share the product info using Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail.

+ Improved results for health-related searches

+ Bing Maps Adds New/Updated Data, November Update
178,720 square kilometers of imagery has been added of primarily locations in Eastern Europe. This blog posts gives specifics but as we’ve mentioned before the best way to get a handle on what’s new is to use the Bing World Tour app.

+ Deal Time: Some Wolfram|Alpha Data Will Soon (Very Soon) Be Available on Bing

+ Problem Solved: Producing Direct Links to Specific Locations with Bing Maps

+ A Busy Day at Bing: First Maps and Now Bing Video

+ Makeover at Bing Maps, New Features, Too!

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