Microsoft announces its latest Bing search overhaul plans
Microsoft is changing the look and feel of the Bing interface, turning it into a three-column design with new “Snapshot” and “Sidebar” panes added.
Microsoft officials are calling it the biggest update of Bing since the search engine was launched three years ago. The core of the new design is the new more Metro-ish search results page that Microsoft showed off last week. In addition to delivering less cluttered look-and-feel, Microsoft made changes under the covers, resulting in search results calculating faster and more accurately, officials said last week.
The new additions which are coming later include snapshot and sidebar. Snapshot allows users to see information related to their searches “compiled by Bing” in a separate column. (I wonder if Microsoft contemplated making this available in a separate tab or window, as the Bing team briefly tested displaying search results this way, but then pulled the test due to negative outcry from users who didn’t realize they were part of an unannounced test program.)
