Take a multimedia tour of 14 features that Bing offers up. Each tour stop includes a video overview, some “behind the feature” comments (feel free to skip), and direct links to that specific feature. A useful way to get up to speed on a few features that are unique to Bing. Yes, it’s basically a commercial but with that understood it can be useful, especially for those who teach web search skills and want to show users that each engine (B,G,Y) offers not only a unique database but also a variety of features.

The 14 “Tour Stops” are:

+ Real-Time Search

+ Weather/Event Results

+ Bing Local

+ Enhanced Results

+ Videos

+ Enhanced Hover

+ Bing for Mobile

+ Bing Travel

+ Bing Health

+ Bing Shopping

+ Visual Search

+ Reference

+ Wolfram|Alpha

+ Search Sharing

By the way, are most favorite Bing feature is not listed. Check out the incredible “bird’s eye” imagery that Bing provides for many locations around the world. Here’s an example. The Coliseum in Rome. On the left side of the image look for a + (plus sign). Click it and zoom-in. Wow!

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