YouTube may have its own music awards, but with video sites turning into top destinations for free music listening, Microsoft's Bing wants to be a go-to source for your tunage searches.
Bing recently introduced a refreshed layout for music video searches that lets you quickly find popular videos, and related, songs, artists and albums, complete with hover-over previews directly within the Bing search results themselves.
Binging for music
If you search for music on the front page of Bing you won't notice any overt changes. As usual, you'll see a selection of videos related to your search at the top of your results page, followed by a series of links. Hovering your mouse cursor over those results, however, causes a pop-up preview box to appear and start playing the video.
An example of Bing's hover-over music video preview in action, in the video search results. (Click to enlarge.)
The videos come from YouTube, Vimeo, MTV, Artist Direct and other sources—basically anybody who's anybody in online music video. Clicking on a preview brings you to the full page for the song.
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