1. Type the following address in IE: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/search/?search=bing
2. Select your favourite add-on and press the Add t Internet Explorer button.
3. That’s all, now enjoy.

As of present date, the following add-ons are available:

Bing Search
For decisions that matter. Bing and decide.

Bing Maps
Map addresses using this Bing Maps Accelerator

Bing Translator
Language translation at your fingertips with this Accelerator

Shop and Save with Bing Shopping
Gives you instant product prices, cashback offers and information and helps you save shopping online (Accelerator)

Surf Canyon
Unleash the power of search like never before

Finance from Bing
Get stock quotes from Bing with this Web Slice

Traffic from Bing
Get traffic updates from Bing with this Web Slice

Bing Maps for Outlook
Internet mapping and Outlook

Bing Image Search
Search Images with Bing (Accelerator)

Define with Bing
Define words or phrases with Bing (Accelerator)

Weather from Bing
Get weather updates from Bing with this Web Slice

Bing add-ons for Internet Explorer

If you use Firefox, see the list of Bing add-ons for Firefox.

They say “this is the only officially supported Bing add-on, provided by the Bing team in Microsoft.” We have to believe them (after seeing the EULA we give them credit), since there is a smilarly named add-on by Daniel Hoo that  places ads before the actual search results.

The plugin is very simple and installs Bing into the list of search engines available on the  right.

Bing 20090531, by longzheng

This add-on promises search suggestions, but it doesn’t deliver. It does the same thing as the official add-on.

You can see the other add-ons by searching for Bing in the Firefox add-ons window. If you use Internet Explorer, here’s a list of Bing add-ons for IE

1. Click New to create a new e-mail message.
2. Select a category from the Quick add pane on the right.
3. Type what you want to find in the Bing search box.
4. Click Insert on the Bing search result that you’d like to add to your message

Now is very simple to add images, videos and other useful stuff to your email by using Bing and Hotmail.

The queries originated from Google Zeitgeist, Microsoft’s xRank and Yahoo Buzz. The categories were Entertainment, Health, Local, News, Retail, Sports, Travel and Other. The Citigroup decided who wins using these two criteria:

1) Relevancy of the organic search results; and 2) Robustness of the search experience, which included factors such as image and video inclusion, Search Assist, and Site Breakout.

While stating that Google is still the king of relevancy, many ommited the fact that Bing proved more relevant than Yahoo. The original article is  here.

The study took the form of  a focus group in which 12 subjects were monitored with eye-tracking cameras as they conducted searches. Afterward, they were interviewed and completed a survey. All the subjects declared that they used Google as their main search engine. Following the test, 4 out of the 12, or one third, said that overall they preferred Bing. The other 8 said that they preferred Google because they were already familiar with it, used other Google products, or that Bing’s improvements are simply not enough to make them switch.

What is amazing is that when the test subjects were asked to rate Bing on specific criteria (visual design, organization of features, filtering options, and relevance of results), Bing handily beat Google in everything but result relevance. Arguably, that is the most important criteria, but most of the study participants thought that both search engines tied on result relevance. So even though Bing ranked better on design, and tied on relevance, that was not enough for most of them to switch.

The following is the text as it appeared on Tech Crunch:About half of the participants found and used the Explore Pane on the left side of Bing’s home page and results pages to aid in refinement and navigation, while all of them ignored the navigation/refinement links along the top left of Google (Web, video, Images, Maps, News).

Also because the Explore Pane on Bing takes up the left hand column and then stops, creating white space underneath, people naturally stop there. Heat maps generated by the eye-tracking data showed that people scroll much farther down Google’s search results pages, perhaps because there is no visual cue telling them to stop or they were not finding what they were looking for. It is not clear they got better results with Bing, but if the result they wanted was not above the fold, then they might use the Explore pane to refine their search.

The way results were displayed also had an effect on how long people looked at the ads along the top. The amount of time spent on the ads varied by search, depending on what kind of additional navigation information was presented just below the sponsored results. For instance, a search on Bing for “digital camera” concentrates attention there with navigational links to filter results by top brands, prices and guides. Participants spent 150 percent more time looking at the ads just above that activity zone than on Google.

A search for a local hotel, however, produces similar results on both search engines in that area just below the top ads (a map with local listings). So there was not much difference between the two in the how much time was spent looking at the top ads related to that search. In all cases, the ads on the right were only noticed about half the time.
Read the whole article on Tech Crunch.

Do you think that Bing has better design than Google? Comment:

Bing was able to amass 49.57 million unique visitors in its first month as Microsoft’s official search engine. Bing’s traffic trumps that of Digg (38.96 million) Twitter (23 million), and CNN (28.54 million).  Bing is surpassed by Live.com, the other important site from Microsoft, which gathered almost 80 mil. visits in June.

We are all waiting for the July data to see if  Bing will be able to keep up the pace.