Microsoft designed bing.com to help webmaster and you overcome search overload and make faster, more informed decisions when searching online. Microsoft says that research indicates that 66 percent of people are increasingly turning to search engines to assist in making decisions - above and beyond simple navigation or information retrieval, for which today's search engines were originally built.

Bing is a decision engine to provide you with intelligent search tools to help you simplify tasks and make more informed choices, from mapping out the fastest route to get home to researching a product purchase or planning a trip.

According to Microsoft here are a few of the features of bing:
Making Search Easier
  • Home page
  • Autosuggest
  • Best Match
  • Document Preview
  • Instant Answers

Making Search More Organized
  • Explore Pane
  • Quick Tabs
  • Related Searches
  • Session History
  • Video search
  • Image search
  • News search
  • Bing Maps

Providing Tools to Help You Complete Tasks
  • Shopping
  • Travel
  • Local
  • Health


For further information about bing search, you can check Microsoft press release:
microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/may09/05-28NewSearchPR.mspx