Joining hands with wolfram | alpha, Bing is rolling out a new “task-focused” version of its home page. It looks relatively the same as before, but when you mouse over different categories, you will get more search options. For example, if you mouse over “Travel,” you will get links like “find flights”, “find hotels,” and destinations you can conduct your search from there.

“There is also an interactive Instant Answer that allows you to enter your origin, destination, travel dates and…click…you are in Bing travel,” says Bing Product Manager. “Within Bing travel you have fast access to flight purchase recommendations via the price predictor that tells you the least expensive times to fly. In addition to money, you’ll save time as well with Bing travel’s comprehensive flight listing results and links to top travel sites and airlines.”

Bing is also enhancing local information for hundreds of cities looking for things like local attractions, points of interest, restaurants and other local information sources like newspaper web sites. Bing has developed enhanced city results, which include links to key information and high-resolution slide shows.

Bing is also doing a better job mining things like contact phone numbers and email addresses from web pages and displaying them clearly under a Contact banner, and generally cleaning up the interface to make it easier to decide if this a site you want to visit. It also includes images in some preview results. Bing believes that all these features will allow for a faster decision about whether a site is right for your needs, which means less clicking on your browser’s back button.

An all new Event Search feature has also been added to Bing recently, which gives users a summary of events for major cities, which can be filtered by things like performances, food & dining, fairs & festivals, music, etc.

Now that Bing has been getting more new features, would you Bing more that you Google? Share your views by posting comments below.