New search engine application arrives for the iPhone.
The Redmond, Wash., software giant announced the new application’s release on its Bing blog. Much like the browser-based Bing.com, the application shows the image of the day and clickable hotspots that include trivia.
It offers search of images, movies, maps, businesses, news and directions. Users can even check their flight status on the go.
“Make decisions and get where you need to go with Bing,” the official description reads. “See the Bing daily image and related trivia on the home screen. Search maps or the Web with your voice — even say an address. Use Image Search and flick through previews. Download Bing today to find stuff nearby and get there fast.”
Initial response to the Bing application has been positive, as 191 of 247 reviewers have given the software five stars. It has an overall score of 4 and a half stars.
The free application is a 1.9MB download that requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
Bing is the third application on the iPhone and iPod touch from Apple’s rival to the north. Its previous releases are Tag Reader, an application that reads barcode-like Microsoft Tags, and Seadragon, which allows easy zooming and panning of large images.
Microsoft has tried for years to gain a strong presence in the online search business. The market is currently dominated by Google, which has its own iPhone application: Google Mobile. Last year, the software was updated to allow its own voice searches.
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my default search engine is Yahoo but now i am using BING because it is much better than Yahoo. i heard that Bing search engine would power Yahoo search also.