When it come to word-processing capabilities, nothing beats Microsoft's Word, not even Google Docs. The web version - Office Word Online - has just become more powerful with a new feature developed by the Bing and Office teams. Insights for Office is a more powerful way to search for information you need while working inside Office online. It is the perfect companion for Bloggers, authors, and content creators who make frequent use of online information to craft their content.

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In a fresh bid to add more value to the search engine, Bing has added a new feature for making hotel reservation on Bing.com, along with some other nifty mobile features. So now when you're travelling, Bing can be your travel companion, and getting a place to stay should be one thing you can quickly check off your to-do list. Let's take a look at what Bing has been up to.

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Mobile is growing at such as fast pace that it is no longer the future. Rather, as Bing puts it, it is the present. Search engines are now helping webmasters make their sites mobile friendly. For example, Google has recently launched a new mobile-friend testing tool which lets webmasters know if their website is good to go mobile or not. Bing has been hard at work too, and is ready to acknowledge all the work you've been doing to get crawled, selected, indexed, and ranked - from a mobile perspective.

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Are you a webmaster? Bing Webmaster Tools can help your website grow! Now only do you get an essential set of tools to master Bing search, you can now also get free Bing Ads credit! The winter holiday season is coming up, so now would be a great chance to accelerate your website's opportunity to get ahead as people prepare for the holiday shopping. Bing is giving you an opportunity to advertise your products by giving you free $100 Bing Ads credit!

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While Google improves its usability by incorporating structured data into search result pages, Bing takes a bigger, and somewhat similar approach. Bing, it seems, has finally started to catch up, and is now providing features Google captivated its users with for so long - probably even taking them a step further. For its latest feature, Bing will now show full song lyrics on its search results page in much the same way as Google shows information on its Knowledge Graph!

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Bing launched an amazing image search widget last month that let you embed images from Bing Image Search queries directly on your website. The widget displayed the image stream in a nice collage or slideshow mode, and it added a cool feature in the Bing arsenal. But owing to a lawsuit against Microsoft filed by Getty Images over the feature, it has been taken down indefinitely,. However, the already installed scripts are still functional.

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Image search accounts for the second most popular form of search queries after web search. According to Bing, these queries make more that 10 % of total search queries, and as much as 40% of search results include some kind of a visual component. Capitalizing on that fact, Bing has made significant advancements which make it your go-to place when looking for images. Google might be king of web search, but it's image search is no match for Bing's.

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Embedding images on a webpage is part of the basic alphabet of web development, and can usually be done with just a couple clicks. But what about embedding multiple image, say from a search results query? You decide to share images generated from a certain search query, but don't want to save and upload each of them individually, or infringe any copyright laws? Well with the Bing Image widget, doing just that is as easy as adding an image to a webpage.

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