Well –firstly Bing is not to be confused with a conventional ‘search engine’, as it’s sophisticated search tools go well with Microsoft’s choice of calling it a  ‘decision engine’. If you do some comparison searches for the same keyword in both Bing and Google – you will more or less get the same results. The difference with Bing is that Microsoft have added some tools which makes for intelligent searches, for example:

A most clever tool is the ‘Quick Preview’ a bubble which gives a brief preview of the listed results – simply hover over the rsults and click to the right side of the results to see a  the pop-up, this saves you clicking useless and unrelated web pages and saves you time.

Brief summary of webpage (right column)

Bing sports a useful set of navigation and search tools such as an ‘Explore Pane’ to the left side of  your page results, it is called Web Groups, which not only organizes search results in the pane but also in the actual page results. Directly below this is a set of ‘Related Searches’ which – at a quick glance could save you not only having to add more keywords to refine your results, but you will pleasingly find that the ‘Related Searches’ are a good match.

Web groups and related searches panel

Overall - I think that Bing definately deserves a good ranking in the ’search engine’ market because Microsoft have most certainly produced a new and  intelligent way of surfing the web. I predict that it’s useful search tools will give it the edge in the future.

Yes – you can create a website for free, but you will need to purchase a domain name and pay a subscription fee to a hosting site.

Free blog packages such as ‘Wordpress’ are best if you have never built a website before as these are fairly simple to create and include an excellent support forum if you hit a problem. Some of the blog themes are really nice and you get to choose your own to compliment your niche.

The following list will help you to get started:

1. Choose and purchase your domain name (relevant to your niche)
2. Register your domain with a hosting service
3. Set up your new blog

Once you have set up your blog – you will need to get it indexed in google, and then for the hardest part - is to start doing your SEO (search engine optimisation). This can be very time consuming but you will need to do this to promote your blog and drive traffic to it.