Grab Yourself Some Bing

@KDizzle I don't see what you are talking about. No mouse over functionality, no additional info, nothing new compared to Google. Tried with Firefox and ie8 and silverlight is installed...

I think some of your readers posting comments are missing some of Bing's functionality. Bing is taking a substantial amount of labor out of the research process via their mouseover functionality. Instead of the traditional meta description users have been forced to use to make their click decisions, Bing is providing additional info pulled from each site which appears to be home page (or, whatever page is popping organically) copy. This seems to be including contact info as usually this info is displayed on each page of a given site. Their local listings are drastically better as well, and use more visual means to convey review data. As is the case with most new functionality, the true value will occur when sites poised to benefit from this new presentation start adapting to it. In the meantime, MS is reliant upon their $100 million marketing/advertising budget. This approach is very user-centric. Now in addition to character limited PPC ads, and also character limited meta descriptions (sort of), the user can review actual page copy and navigation options without laboriously clicking through to several different sites. Confer with your crystal ball, but I think an increase in available data prior to the website visit should increase qualification. Now the real question, will it work? Is it worth it to adapt to capitalize on this new functionality? Who knows, I personally have thought that Yahoo delivers better search results for some time now, but Google people largley remain Google people. In Yahoo's case, I haven't seen them present themselves as a superior search vehicle for a long time. I believe their comfortable with the amount of traffic they receive from their massive array of varied content. It seems people have stopped calling this time period the information age, but thats what it is. If you can deliver relevant and useful information easier and quicker and smarter then your competitors you should do well...but again Google is Google.

Here is a link to the Photosynth demo: www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html

While I personally am a major fan of Google for my personal searches, I think Bing should be considered by hotels as a way to pick up some incremental traffic. Not a lot, but in these times the exposure can only help. Long term, I am curious to see how Microsoft integrates Bing with the release of Windows 7...there could be some unique applications. I am still waiting for Microsoft to do something big with Photosynth, which blew my mind when I saw the video from Ted.com.

I think Bill Maher hit the nail on the head when he said, "Microsoft is spending millions to promote their new search engine, Bing. And how did I find out what it was? I googled it."

Google will always be my first choice. I can't see many people switching over to Bing long term. It's a novelty because it's new. Remember Cuil?

Unfortunately, Bing does not accept feeds like Google does and MSN Live used to.

Another source of web traffic is always a good thing!

I don't see much difference with Google. Bing has - Search options accross the top, like Google - Adds on the right, like Google - Big blank space on the left under 'all results', unlike Google who uses the space - In the middle all results, almost like Google - A link to cached pages, like in Google - No link to similar pages, Google does If I search the "Web" for hotels in chicago like your example - I don's see a phone number, I do in Google - I don't see rate, address etc, like in Google - I don't see links to reviews, I do in Google At the moment, when I do a search, I often try both Bing and Google, and Google is still favorite. Bing does not bring new things, only more of the same. So, what's the big fuzz about??? O, I am located in the Netherlands but I suppose that should not matter in what they display. If it does, then it's pretty stupid right now...