Did you hear about Bing. It’s the latest in search engine technology from Microsoft and this time the company means serious business. All you “snug with Google” users, do give it a try as it has some really cool and helpful new features.
For starters Microsoft has been promoting Bing as a “Decision Engine” that is Bing will go beyond your regular search engines lead by Google, and provide users with tools that would help them make informed decisions. Bing has been tailored to help you make decisions like those involving purchases, locating specific local businesses, planning a trip, and even researching for a health condition among others.
I can see many of you rolling up their eyes, but folks do give it a try. These are early days and it might take some time to come on its own, but unless you spend a reasonable amount of time learning to get the best out of Bing, it would be unfair to dismiss it. On my end I am playing around with various keywords related to language translation and getting some very interesting results. For one, I get to see snippets and meta data of search results as I hover my cursor over individual links, that saves a lot of time as I don’t have to leave the search page every time I need to check out a particular link.
From the perspective of the language translation services industry Bing might very well develop into a tool which would help translation buyers in selecting the perfect translation services provider for their project. In the case of professional translation providers, there might be a number of ways in which Bing could help – it could make research easier among other things. I have just started using Bing, and am still exploring its utilities… do give it a try and share your experiences and ideas with me.
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I have several ecommerce sites, all in english and all with validated code. For some reason Bing has decided that one of my sites needs to be translated, and has added a “Translate this page” beneath the title. What’s all that about? One thing is for sure though - I’m not gonna get many clicks to it from Mr Bing with that showing.