Bada Bing! Microsoft delivers Bing search app

Search is really effort engrossing these days. Microsoft late terminal night released Bing [iTunes link] for the iPhone -- a flooded featured liberated app substance search, movies, maps, and directions, every with vocalise control.

It's celebrity that Microsoft is feat after iPhone mind-share after Steve Ballmer famously dissed the iPhone more than 2 eld ago. He's had to sit backwards and watch the iPhone surpass Windows Mobile phones in the marketplace, which can't be pleasant, but playing is business, and Microsoft is actuation the Bing wager suite of tools hard.

After spending whatever instance with it terminal night and this morning, I crapper say that it works pretty well. I conceive on-screen it is more captivating than the Google Mobile app substance [iTunes link] and the vocalise curb is about as accurate.

On the Bing home screen there are candid links to images, movies, maps, businesses, news and directions. It inverts the Google method, where you do a search, then select, for example, images. I conceive I prefer the Bing hierarchy as existence more logical.

The vocalise wager isn't perfect. It especially had trouble with addresses. You crapper ingest Bing, as you crapper Google Maps, as a low end guidance app, but of instruction no vocalise directions as yet.

Some of the icons, same backwards and forward seem a taste likewise near together, but the icons are serviceable. Like Google, you crapper wager for a business, then click to selector it directly, get directions, or feature reviews. Business categories are substantially thought out, and cushy to navigate.

You crapper admittance an iPhone cordial edition of Bing from Safari on the iPhone, but of instruction there is no vocalise input and it is more unmanageable to use, so I conceive having an app makes sense.

For free, there is no conceive not to download Bing and wager if you same it. I'm hoping Microsoft module aggressively update the app, and continue to add features. I conceive if you grab it, you'll ingest it. Bing requires an iPhone and iPod touch with iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

Gallery: Bing iPhone app screen shots