Now this is something you don’t see very often, a software company rolling out a product ahead of schedule. Microsoft was scheduled to release Bing.com, its new search engine, on Wednesday, June 3rd but instead released it today, two days ahead of schedule. And more importantly, the roll out seems to have gone very smooth. I have used it multiple times today and the site and results are very fast. Usually a launch like this generates so much extra traffic that the servers end up overloaded an you end up having trouble trying out the new site (see Wolfram Alpha launch a few weeks ago).
Bing’s interface and search results looks promising as well. I’ve been trying to use it for all of my searching today and the results have been good for a wide variety of searches. And while this is probably not a Google killer, it definitely has more potential than any of Google’s other competitors.
One of the unique features of Bing that I like is the ability to hover over a line with an orange dot that appears to the right side of the listing your mouse is over and get more text for the description of the listing. Sometimes it seems that the couple lines of text you typically get in the description just isn’t enough and this addresses that.
If you want to try it out and see what a Bing search results page look like, give this search a try.
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