I was playing around with Bing image search today after reading about how great it was. It provides easy and quick ways to search for the image of your dreams. After playing for a bit, I noticed you can choose to filter by image size with five options: all, small, medium, large and wallpaper.

I filtered my search by ‘wallpaper’ and noticed that all the images it returned were 1440 x 900 pixels, the exact resolution of my screen.  I changed my screen size to 1024 x 768, searched again, filtered by ‘wallpaper’ and all the images it returned were 1024 x 768. As simple as this is, it’s a very useful and very thoughtful feature.

Want a nice green background?  Search ‘green’ using Bing image search, filter by ‘wallpaper’ and easily find a nice green image that fits your desktop perfectly!

Like cars?  Search ‘ferrari’ and filter by ‘wallpaper’. No matter what your screen size it return images that exact size allowing you to easily access a plethora of perfect desktop background images.

Have you found any cool tricks with Bing?  We’d love to hear em!

We’ve been tracking quite a few domains and keywords on Live for sometime now. I was curious to see if Microsoft made an effort to improve the actual results within their new search engine Bing, and not just dress up Live.com results. It looks like they definitely made a few changes to how they rank sites. This isn’t the case for every keyword across the board, but a good amount of the keywords we’re tracking significantly changed positions on the 13th of last month.  Here are some examples …