Microsoft’s new search engine Bing has made impressive gains in market share since launch. According to comScore Inc Bing’s Market share grew 4.5 % between July and August, giving it a total share of 9.3%, not bad for a search engine that only launched on the first of June. This puts Bing in third place behind Yahoo (19.3%) and Google (64.6%).

Visual Search will present you with a grid of images – divided into categories – making it easy to find exactly what you need without having to know its exact name. It works well, or will work well, when, for example, you’re shopping for gadgets or looking for a famous person whose name you just can’t remember.

Blind Search is a search tool that provides results to any search you type in from Google, Bing and Yahoo all on one page in three neat columns… but doesn’t tell you which column belongs to which. You then get to compare results side by side and vote for which one you think gave the best results. Once you’ve voted, the name of each search engine pops up at the top of each column.

Google Squared takes extracts data from Web pages and presents them in search results as squares in an online spreadsheet. It looks like a homework dream and for most of us it having many related search results on one page will save time and add information context. You can also start with a blank screen and build your own search spreadsheet….the applications are pretty powerful.

Say hello to Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine officially launching to the public this week. A search engine that some people in the know actually think it has what it takes to Bing Google out the park.