New Features in Microsoft Bing – Malware Filter

New Features in Microsoft Bing – Malware Filter

Jun 19, 2009

Bing,the latest search engine added on to internet is being advertised as a decision making tool(probably not so much – just trying to set itself apart from google) has now added another feature “The Malware Filter“, Bing has strengthened bingit’s security in search by adding malware filter which protects users from downloading malwares from malware sites. Now Bing would not show results which contain malware just like fake software or antivirus sites which promote download on your PC along with hidden malwares.
Full version of Bing is not available outside North America

Here’s the link to full version,which contains interesting information every day in its home page.Some other facts on bing:

On searching any query which seems like a question like “What is the population of America” ,Bing understand the semantics of the search and the first result shown is the actual number, Statistics according to the latest consensus or for more general queries it uses encarta or wikipedia like trusted sources.

One can also calculate numbers on it or ask simple questions like ” How many seconds in a Day?” again the first result shown is a number depicting the answer of oyur question.If you want to find Instant Answers to your queries without many search results use Bing’s instant answers to get in Conversions,Flight deals,Flight Status,hotels,Math ,News and Weather.

Bing also loads hotspots for images in blocks which describes story for that image.Bing is engineered in such a way that background image,Bing logo,hotspots and explore pane which contains Images ,videos,Shopping,News,Maps and Travel  loads in stages which may not slow down your searching in Bing.

One can also turn off background image by adding a variable to the URL  b=0 to turn background off and b=1 to tuen it on.In simple words the address instead of bing.com type http://www.bing.com/?rb=0 [For no background better for slow connections] and http://www.bing.com/?rb=1 to turn it on.

You can also save Bing Backgound by right clicking on the background image and view and then rightclick on the sole image and save it on your desktop.

You can also translate into different languages by posting your search query as “Translate I am a Freak to Spanish” and click search button you will get the translated words in Spanish language .

You can also download bing ringtones for free  —-> Here.

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