Bing Mobile Web Site & 800-BING411

m.bing.com Viewed on Windows Mobile Smartphone (left) & iPhone (right)

Microsoft’s Bing.com is their new search engine that takes over the Live Search brand and function. It became available to the general public just yesterday. But, it didn’t launch alone. It turns out that it has both a mobile device friendly website found at…

m.bing.com

…as well as a dial-in speech recognition service using Microsoft subsidiary’s Tellme’s technology. If you are in the U.S., you can dial this toll-free number to try it out:

800-BING-411 (800-246-4411)

You can see that Bing’s mobile website actually looks a bit cleaner on an iPhone compared to a Windows Mobile smartphone is my screenshots above. Visiting from a Windows Mobile smartphone results in advice to download Microsoft’s Live Search client for that platform. It turns out this is good advice since the Live Search app for Windows Mobile provided me better local business searches than Bing did.

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