Microsoft Bing | All You Need To Know!

If you're using Windows 10 and search using the new Microsoft Edge, you'll find the Microsoft Bing as the default search engine, not Google as in Firefox and Chrome.

Wanting to know more about it in a simple way, then you're in the right place!

Also read: Top 3 Alternative Search Engines To Google

What is Microsoft Bing?

Microsoft Bing commonly known as Bing, is Microsoft's own solution for a search engine.

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This is much of predecessor to Microsoft's old search engines, MSN search and Live search. Bing was announced on May 28, 2009 and as rebranded to Microsoft Bing, a couple of months before.

Features of Microsoft Bing.

· Third Party Integration

Facebook users can share their Bing searches and history with their Facebook friends directly.

Apple had previously announced that Siri, their voice assistant will support Bing as the default search results provider instead of Google.

· Translator

Bing has a translator feature that can translate more than 70 different languages.

· Bing Predicts

Bing Predicts is a feature, inspired by weather forecasts, that can predict the winners of any competition. This has achieved a max accuracy of 80% but has made some noble fails, like predicting Hillary Clinton to win in the 2016 US elections for example.

· Bing News

Bing News is a news aggregator / feed directly connected to the search engine. 

Bing is ranked as the third most popular search engine with more than 4% of search queries but falls far behind Google which has 77% and Baidu with about 15%.