If you have recently purchased a Windows Phone 7 device, then you’ve probably spent a lot of time in the Zune software looking for apps to make the mobile experience even better. And while the Zune software is great, searching for apps is a little cumbersome at times.
This is where being the creator of the mobile phone OS has its advantages. Not only can Microsoft integrate many of their services into a phone, but they can use their search engine, Bing, to aid users in the search for apps as well.
To run a Windows Phone app search, simply type something like “Windows Phone 7 apps” into the Bing search engine and you will receive results.
Click on Visual Search and Bing will pull in all of the Windows phone apps and also provide different ways to search and display them.
Bing provides different ways to filter Windows Phone apps and also lists the total apps in the top left-hand corner as well as: top rated, newest free apps, newest paid apps and most downloaded categories. By comparison, it looks like Bing app search is a little behind the actual Marketplace catalog, because there are some new apps missing from the results.
Bing is a great way to search for different apps because it contains an easy view of much more information without having to move through different screens.
Maybe this feature will help us find apps easier and quicker. I thought this was a nice little feature that Bing offers and I’m sure app developers will enjoy the exposure through Bing as well.
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