Bing video search – More than what we expect

Is there anything more visually appealing than Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing? The engine greets you with spectacular landscape images, complemented by a wealth of historical information and interesting facts. These compelling bits of information also lead you to other areas within Bing, such as the video results page.

Bing video home page

Live video previews on mouse over 

Unlike other search engine, Bing not only display search result, but you can also play the video directly from the search engine. All you need to do is hover your mouse to any video and it will start streaming from there. You can also control the video volume from search page.

 

Note the arrow mark mentioned on the image. You will get a small review on your video when you hover the mouse pointer on it.

Play videos inside Bing

Moreover when you will click on any video, it will play the video in the Bing search page, instead of redirecting you to original page.

Bing Video Filters

The bing video search gives you some options to filter down your results by length, screen size, resolution and source. Source is most interesting to me as it gives you the list of sources it’s apparently pulling from:

• MSN
• AOL
• MTV
• Hulu
• ESPN
• YouTube
• MySpace (?!)
• DailyMotion
• MetaCafe

Not a complete who’s who of video platforms and sharing sites but not the smallest cross-section I’ve seen in a video search either.

Video Filter Screen shot

Key Factors

It appears there are many key factors that come into play when optimizing your video site for Bing:

• Video Sources: MSN, AOL,MTV, ESPN, YouTube, MySpace, DailyMotion, MetaCafe
• Date of Video
• Keyword Relevancy: Title, URL and Description
• Length: short (< 5 min), medium (5-20 min), long (> 20 min)
• Screen Size: standard and widescreen
• Resolution: low, medium and high

Here’s a rundown of key features of Bing Video Search over Google Video Search:

• When you mouse over on Bing, the video auto plays with sound. Google allows you to skip through content – but only after you click to play the video in their interface.
• Bing provides larger previews of the actual screenshot than Google – who relies on the text unnecessarily. Video is a visual medium, Bing is letting that take precedence. You can mouse over the title on Bing to get the full title if it’s clipped.
• When you play the video on Bing, it’s almost have the page size… fantastic – especially for new, higher definition content. Other videos are still listed underneath and can still be auto played when you mouse over them.
• Narrowing down your search selections is simple and intuitive on the left sidebar on Bing. Google requires you to click Advanced Video Search to get to the same filtering options.

Comparison Screenshots

Google video search

 

Bing Video search

Google doesn’t make the most elegant or prettiest of pages, but their Video Search Results page is downright unmanageable and ugly. In my opinion, Bing has done a fantastic job laying out the page and making it more usable. Searching for video is difficult – and the algorithms aren’t the greatest… you tend to have to bounce around a lot. Bing’s interface and usability make it much easier to search, browse and find the video you’re looking for.

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 Bing is such a decision engine.

Bing, the new decision engine that helps you overcome search overload and quickly make more informed choices.

Bing provides an easy way to make more informed choices. It organizes popular results by category to help you get the answers you’re looking for without having to guess at the right way to formulate your query. And built right into Bing is a set of intelligent tools to help you accomplish important tasks such as buying a product, planning a trip or finding a local business.

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Microsoft is doing a lot of things right with Bing, For one, the engine works quite well, including a number of subtle features like video previews (Read more about bing video previews)that Google doesn’t have (yes, some of the improvements were introduced in Live Search, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t cool). Perhaps more important, the company is doing a good job with its marketing efforts, shedding its corporate monolith culture in favor of something that’s decidedly more.

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about bing …

Bing is a new search engine designed to do more than merely help you find information. Bing organizes search results and provides refinement tools that help you overcome information overload, get things done and quickly bring you to the point of using that information to make an informed decision.

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO said, “Today, search engines do a decent job of helping people navigate the Web and find information, but they don’t do a very good job of enabling people to use the information they find, When we set out to build Bing, we grounded ourselves in a deep understanding of how people really want to use the Web. Bing is an important first step forward in our long-term effort to deliver innovations in search that enable people to find information quickly and use the information they’ve found to accomplish tasks and make smart decisions.”

Key features …

• Bing is a new Decision Engine and consumer brand and helping customers their search faster and more informed decisions.
• Bing is specifically designed to build on the benefits on today’s search engine.
• Intuitivetools to help customers make better decisions.
• Focusing on four key vertical areas such as:
  • Making a purchase decision
  • Planning a trip
  • Researching a health condition
  • Finding local business
• designed to empower people to gain insight and knowledge from the Web, moving more quickly to important decisions

Bing’s Home page looks like…

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Microsoft is doing a lot of things right with Bing, For one, the engine works quite well, including a number of subtle features like video previews that Google doesn’t have (yes, some of the improvements were introduced in Live Search, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t cool). Perhaps more important, the company is doing a good job with its marketing efforts, shedding its corporate monolith culture in favor of something that’s decidedly more.

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