Bing makes it's case for your one-stop Valentine's Day resource
This week the folks at Microsoft have made it clear that they're aiming for Google's throat with a loving dose of all-out Valentine's Day coverage straight from Bing – full of love, of course! This coverage comes in the form of not just Windows Phone-centered functionality for all your Valentine's Day needs, but both the Bing mobile site and the Bing app as well. Once you've gone to m.bing.com or downloaded Bing from your smartphone or tablet's own app store, you'll be well on your way!
Bing is out to take on the masses of Valentine's Day lovers with Local Scout on your Windows Phone 8 device first and foremost. Local Scout makes it simple to find all the best nearby food and drink locations right from the palm of your hand while m.bing.com does instant searches near you for similar results. Bing offers up their "snapshot" results for restaurant reviews from Yelp as well as restaurant booking straight from Open Table.
Bing Maps is ready and willing at this point in history to take you wherever you need to go with the GPS on your smartphone or through any mobile web browser with point to point directions that include traffic conditions on-the-go. Bing Shopping has you covered for gifts with millions of listings of products from every single corner of the consumer universe. Bing's social sidebar also provides you help with gifts with expert reviews from all over the web – and your Facebook friends if they're also connected to the network.
Let us know if you're ready to use Bing this holiday or if you're planning on using a competing search engine to make sure you're stacked up and ready for the big love-bound day of heart-throbbing goodness. The heart you're seeing above is not a direct result of Bing's search engine results as the search bar implies – not directly, anyway – instead it's a poll conducted by Bing that shows Trustworthiness as the most important quality a partner can have in general. Microsoft is showing that it's not afraid to say that Google isn't a partner they'd choose to go home with.
[via Bing]