June 01, 2009

Redmond (WA) - It might still carry a 'beta' tag, but Microsoft's bizarrely-named Bing search engine is up and running, a couple of days earlier than expected.

There's a nifty preview of the first few lines of each article found and the picture searching should worry Google quite a bit - it's streets ahead in terms of searching for different sized, landscape and portrait pictures and even faces, head & shoulders and other body parts.

Best of all it displays search results on one page regardless of whether there are five or 5,000 results. You can also zoom in on the images, which can be restricted by strict or moderate filtering if you don't want to accidentally see any of the above-mentioned body parts.