New Bing – everything you need to know

Recently, Microsoft announced the next version of its search engine – the new Bing. It is a search engine that leverages the power of GPT, a natural language processing model that can generate coherent and relevant texts on any topic. With New Bing, you can find the information you need and interact with it conversationally. You can ask questions, get summaries, explore related issues, and even generate creative content such as poems, stories, and code. This post will show you everything you need to know about it and how it can make your online experience more enjoyable and productive.

Edge Integration together

In the Official Microsoft Blog(link at the end), they claim that the following new experience is what Bing would bring:

We have brought together search, browsing and chat into one unified experience you can invoke from anywhere on the web, delivering:

• Better search. The new Bing gives you an improved version of the familiar search experience, providing more relevant results for simple things like sports scores, stock prices and weather, along with a new sidebar that shows more comprehensive answers if you want them.
  
• Complete answers. Bing reviews results from across the web to find and summarize the answer you’re looking for. For example, you can get detailed instructions for how to substitute eggs for another ingredient in a cake you are baking right in that moment, without scrolling through multiple results.
  
• A new chat experience. For more complex searches – such as for planning a detailed trip itinerary or researching what TV to buy – the new Bing offers new, interactive chat. The chat experience empowers you to refine your search until you get the complete answer you are looking for by asking for more details, clarity and ideas – with links available so you can immediately act on your decisions.
  
• A creative spark. There are times when you need more than an answer – you need inspiration. The new Bing can generate the content to help you. It can help you write an email, create a 5-day itinerary for a dream vacation to Hawaii, with links to book your travel and accommodations, prep for a job interview or create a quiz for trivia night. The new Bing also cites all its sources, so you’re able to see links to the web content it references.
  
• New Microsoft Edge experience. We’ve updated the Edge browser with new AI capabilities and a new look, and we’ve added two new functionalities: Chat and compose. With the Edge Sidebar, you can ask for a summary of a lengthy financial report to get the key takeaways – and then use the chat function to ask for a comparison to a competing company’s financials and automatically put it in a table. You can also ask Edge to help you compose content, such as a LinkedIn post, by giving it a few prompts to get you started. After that, you can ask it to help you update the tone, format and length of the post. Edge can understand the web page you’re on and adapts accordingly.
  

Bing Home Page

Currently, there is a waitlist system. You will get an email when it is ready for you. The two pre-requisites are:

1. A Microsoft Account (which, of course, you would have if you were reading this Blog!)
2. Your Microsoft account isn’t banned on Microsoft Rewards.

Sign up for the AI-powered Bing

To sign up, see the steps below:

1. Open Microsoft Edge and ensure you are signed in to Edge using the same Microsoft Account.
2. Go to https://bing.com/new and select the “Join the waitlist” button.
   
3. When done, you will receive a confirmation email.
4. If you want to skip the queue and want faster access, Microsoft has provided some steps you can do.
   1. In your Microsoft Edge, use Microsoft recommended defaults. For this – On the same page after joining the waitlist, you should see the relevant button. It requires you to set Microsoft’s recommended defaults for Edge, including Bing as a search engine, MSN as a home page, etc.
   2. The next step is to download the Bing app on your Phone. You will see a QR code for that on the page – download that on your Phone and sign in using the same Microsoft account.
5. After doing both of these steps – you will skip the queue somewhat and get access to New Bing very soon. I would post a complete review a few days after using it.

   More information:

   Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge, your copilot for the web – The Official Microsoft Blog