Microsoft makes Bing search available for mobile devices

Microsoft has made the mobile edition of its newly launched Bing search engine available for cell phones and other mobile devices.

The update is available to mobile users at m.bing.com as of yesterday, June 1.

The new Bing for Mobile engine is able to format results to "fit on my phone." The engine creates a "visual image-map of a Web page, allowing users to click the numbered zones to view the corresponding section of that web page."

It sounds from Microsoft's documentation that there still may be a new version of the downloadable Bing for Mobile that has yet to be announced.

From Microsoft's Bing documentation:

"Bing is designed for the PC, and it offers a better way to search the entire Web, but we also have Bing for Mobile, which is designed specifically for quick, task-oriented searches of local information on mobile devices. Bing for Mobile is available in two versions — one for online access via the browser and the other as a downloadable application. Both versions excel with local searches and mapping, and search results are formatted for smaller screens.

"Bing for Mobile is the updated version of Bing Search Mobile. We aren’t announcing any new features at this time, but new versions of the application will be released soon."