Bing has been working consistently to offer best search results to its customers and recently they brought “social” feature also to their search results where people get information from social media such as from Facebook and Twitter. With an up-gradation to the same concept they have introduced two new ways to experience Twitter and Facebook on Bing. Bing integrated real time twitter updates into Bing News. Now as you search a news item you will receive Twitter updates as well along with latest headlines. This will help its users to access real time updates rather than completely relying on the traditional sources.

Bing has also expanded “Liked results’ where you get links that is publicly shared or liked via facebook by your friends. Now they have brought out an easier way to share movies, tv shows, artists directly to your Facebook profile from Bing. With Bing Entertainment pages, you could post “Whats on your mind” by clicking on the “Overview” tab. Bing leaves you the option to share anything viz video game, movies, artists with just one click. This new feature is available in US and will roll out in other places soon.

To sustain in the market, Yahoo is leveraging many attempts and also surrendered its search engine to Microsoft to woo more people towards their site.

Adding to this effort, yahoo introduces “Search Direct” which is quite similar to Google’s Instant search’, where they produce instant search results predictions without having to click on the search results. This feature known as “Search Direct” provides celebrity biographies, weather forecasts and news reports before users finish typing the question. To avoid being blamed as just a follower of Google’s Instant search, Yahoo’s Search Direct offers ‘advanced’ results producing edited information and images just under the search results instead of a page full of links.

You could avail ‘Search Direct’ on Yahoo’s search page, but not from its home page. Yahoo is testing the performance of this new feature before going full fledged.

Bing has launched some interesting features for better Mobile Experience which will certainly make its users at ease to get information instantly. This feature includes better and faster image search, real-time transit and directions, app search for the iPhone and many more with HTML 5 operation. These offers are offered on Smartphone browsers for the iPhone and Android.

Real time transit directions in Bing take in duration of the trip in terms of walking, transit, transit schedule and the traffic status. It also includes relevant information for shopping like comparison of shops, product information, user reviews and also weather reports with auto-suggest and instant prediction. Another interesting feature is in the arena of movies by providing the reviews, trailers, nearest theater & movie schedule etc.

Qyo provides shared search queries. You will receive results from your friends, what they are searching in real time. Qyo makes it very easy to leverage the kind of information that was traditionally stored in the minds of people, and that could not be accessed by others unless the other person shared with them. Built on the theory that two (or more) heads are better than one, Qyo attempts to bring collaborative search to the masses and has become a buzz word among other search engines. Prior registration is required to begin search with Qyo. After registering, you will be invited to connect to your Facebook account to get friends and associates involved, too. In fact, without friends, Qyo is a fairly sparse experience.

Once you’ve associated with another person, all your searches via Qyo will be visible to them (and theirs to you), unless you specifically choose to search privately. Search queries appear as a message list on the right-hand side of the screen. You can comment on other peoples’ searches, help them but couldn’t refine their search, expand it, or anything.  Qyo makes search social, where people can help each other.  Whenever you arrive at the site to search you’ll see all your friends’ searches too.  While the concept is unique, there has to be a lot of improvements to be done to sustain in such a competitive ‘search engine” market.

DuckDuckGo is a new search engine launched, similar to Google having a better visual appeal.
They claim to be unique in keeping users privacy as they don’t track and record your search results. They also guess relevant result for your keyword and highlight the same inside a red box which will be usually drawn from Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha. DuckDuckGo also ban spam sites (loaded with ads). Additionally  they own some interesting features such as “Bang’,where you have the option to get results from specific sites alone, for Eg if you want to get information about Osama Bin Laden  from Wikipedia alone, you have to type “!wikipedia Osama Bin Laden” to get all the results about the person from Wikipedia. There is a long list of bangs which you could utilize to get relevant results.

All the travel lovers could make use of Bing’s new Feature update “Attractions Page”, where you get all the details of the place with reviews, rating, events and photos. To provide the latest information, Bing will be teaming up with leading content providers such as Frommers, TripAdvisor, WCities and Zevents. This new page will be very helpful for all those who wanted to plan a trip and Bing stated on their blog that ‘Attractions Page’ is a one stop for all the information about a tourist place and also provides details about nearby restaurants, Directions, Parking etc.

A free search engine Mocavo.com exclusively for Genealogy search was launched. It enables the search of more than 50 billion words including names, dates and places, within a fraction of seconds. They claim to be the provider of the first large scale, free search engine for family history search.

Online People Search Engine Waatp.com was launched and will help you to locate people and possess latest features such as additional information and improved programming interface. The website was in the public testing mode for the past three months and received over 2 million visits a day.

Another search engine “ibod” originates and claims to be a potential rival for Google. South Bank-based “ibod – short for’ intelligent business on demand’ – provides free business search engines, social networking and advertising for charities and SMEs. It has already created eight jobs and a further 20 positions are expected to be available within a year. Designed to help organizations boost their profile through internet marketing, ibod will generate revenues through advertising and turnover is expected to hit £12m in four years. Kevin Robinson, an entrepreneur and a marketing specialist is the brain behind this venture.

Another one, quite different from all the above, The First Semantic Image Search Engine NachoFoto was unveiled, and  provides real time images based on the meaning of the user’s query. Image is the second most popular search on Google, resulting in 1 billion page views each day. So this new venture is likely to get more hits in the coming days. In their press release they say that Nachfoto is comprised of three distinct features such as ‘related searches’, Image results, and Timeline to ensure delivery of the freshest image results.

A Ray of Hope for Bing as it gains rise in market share while the rival (Google) remained with its 64. 4 %share. Even though Bings’ achievement is very less, they claim to be the achiever.

Google is providing you many options as far as its “search results” are concerned. For the improvement of the same Google had introduced Searchwiki, Stars in search and Locations settings where you can prioritize and mark your search results. Now they have added one more efficient feature for its users to blocks sites which they don’t want to see again.

Many of you surely had a bad experience in getting the apt results in Google. You might have visited websites that carry irrelevant and low quality content and hence resent it and would be looking for an option to block particular domains from your search results for ever. Google now brings out this feature letting you block sites. When you click a result and then return to Google, you’ll find a new link next to “Cached” that shows “Block all ———.com results.  If you proceed with the same by clicking the link “Block all ——.com results, you will receive a confirmation message as well as an option to undo your choice. You could view the link irrespective of whether you are signed in or not but the domains you block are connected with your Google Account so you will have to sign in to confirm a blocked site.

Google has added one more feature into their cart. Apart the one they have launched last year “Priority Box” which will automatically sort your incoming mails and leaves an option for priority messages, This new one titled “Smart Labels” will help you to classify and organize your email. In order to access the same you have to turn it on from the Labs tab in settings, post which it will automatically categorizes and labels your incoming Bulk, Notification and Forum messages. All the mass mails such as newsletter and promotional email will go into Bulk and gets filtered in your inbox by default. If you have already activated some filters and labels to organize your mail, you could replace it with Smart Labels.