The New Bing Allows You To Spend Less Time Searching, More Time Doing

Microsoft Bing today announced the biggest change since its inception on delivering search results for end users. Bing integrated social signals from Facebook and Twitter even before now, but the integration was stuffed into the search result blue links. But now, the Bing search results page was re-designed to incorporate features such as social which I think is pretty remarkable.

The new design has three main elements to it.

Core Web Results: Relevant, comprehensive and trustworthy.

With the latest updates, we are delivering the results you expect.   Beautiful, relevant, results are the first thing you see. Instead of cluttering your results with social updates, we’re honoring the purity of the core web results making it easier to focus on the links you need to get things done.

Snapshot: Get it done faster.

Snapshot is the center column on the Bing search results page, nestled between the web results on the left and the new sidebar on the right. Snapshot brings relevant information and services related to your search to you right on the main results page including maps, restaurant reservations and reviews so you can take action.

Sidebar: Social search done right.

The new Bing focuses on bringing friends, experts and enthusiasts into your search experience through a dedicated social “sidebar.” With sidebar, Bing brings together the best of the web, with what experts and your friends know, giving you the confidence to act. This new way to search lets people share, discover, and interact with friends like they do in real life.

Adding to these stuff, Microsoft has also added the support for these features in mobile version of Bing as well. This new Bing experience will roll out in coming weeks and you can sign-up for notification here at Bing.com/new.

Source: Bing blog