Bing - Competition to Google?

Microsoft has announced its new search engine - "BING". The company describes Bing as delivering more answers to your search queries directly on the search-results page, so you don’t have to keep hunting around for what you want to find.

There are some interesting features which most of the users would like:

• A feature called Hover displays a brief summary of each Web page when your cursor is hovering over the right edge of a link, and this can save you from visiting a useless page.
• Videos on Bing start playing when you move your cursor over a thumbnail still image from the video, without requiring you to press play or go to a new page; the videos stop when you mouse elsewhere.
• A query about a company usually returns its customer-service phone number at the top of the results page.
  
• Shopping, restaurant reviews and travel are also significantly enhanced by Bing.
• Shows related searches on the left side of the page.
• During image search, when cursor is moved over a thumbnail, shows details of the image like resolution and website.
• Also provides various filtering options like size, layout, colour, style for image search.

For some of the searches, Bing appears to provide more relevant results than Google.

Though it appears to be imitating Google in its looks and options, Bing seems to be one of the best search engines. But I wonder whether the users who are very much used to 'Googling' are going for 'Binging'.

Some screenshots of Bing:

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