Microsoft unleashes Bing app for iPhone

Technology Updates – Microsoft has unleashed its very own Bing app for iPhone. iPhone and iPod Touch users can download the app from the Apple’s App Store. The app comes equipped with cool features such as voice-based search, Seadragon powered mapping and location aware search. Full list of features provided below.

ing app for iPhone features

The app which is developed specifically for Apple’s premier phone brings the following interesting features:

• Voice search : Don’t like typing your search query. Well you can make your search by putting your voice to good use.
• Bing Maps: Mapping engine powered by Seadragon which supports zooming and panning..
• Location aware search: Say you are travelling in London, you will want to search for the nearest cinema within London. All you have to do is enabled this very feature.
• One finger Zoom-out button : The button is designed to support zooming out of the map requiring just a single finger touch
• Touch based search Swipe through search results including images as well
• Movie listings
• Flight Time : See arrival and departure time for different flight
• News : Keep yourself updated with the latest and hottest news around the globe.
• Daily image: High quality image with related trivia
• “Locate Me” functionality
• Ability to add pushpins and save locations
• Show multiple locations on a single map

How to Download

• Download it from the iTunes App Store right here
• From your iPhone’s browser navigate to m.bing.com which will automatically take you to the download page.

Correct me if I am wrong, with this Microsoft’s search engine app is available for Windows Mobile, BlackBerryand off course iPhone. Hang on where is the app for the Android platform? Will Microsoft be rolling out the Android version in the upcoming days as a Christmas gift?

Google brings real time search

Google had to do something about the real time search thing and it has done just that. Yes, Google has added real time search capability to its ever growing and ever powerful search engine. Now users can get to see real time results/updates of their search queries.

How big is this? It is huge since it gives you the chance to come across breaking news from Twitter,Facebook and blogs as they happen even if they are not that popular. To make this even more interesting, the real time search has also been rolled out for iPhone and Android phones.

It has partnered up with Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Friendfeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca and others to make this possible. This excellent news was revealed by the search engine giant during their news conference held at Computer History Museum.

Try it Now

If you can’t wait for the feature to arrive, you can  visit Google Trends and click on a “hot topic,” which in most cases will bring you to a search results page with the new real-time feature.

Interestingly, Bing managed to beat Google in the real time search race as it already integrated its decision engine with Twitter back in October. If you are interested, you may want to check out the following link

Bing brings Twitter search

Google will be rolling out these exciting new features in the next few days. Real time search will be made available to global users in English language.

Source: Geekword