Bing Rolls Out International Hotel Booking Feature & Updates Mobile Search Results

Bing released two updates today, adding a new hotel booking feature in partnership with TripAdvisor, as well as updating its mobile search results to include details like deep links and time-stamps.

Now when users search for a hotel on Bing.com, they will be able to see reviews and information about the hotel, select dates, and get rates – all via TripAdvisor – in 22 different countries and 14 different languages.

Bing Hotel Booking Feature:

The 22 countries where users can take advantage of Bing’s hotel booking feature include:

• U.S. (in English and Spanish)
• Great Britain
• Canada (in English and French)
• Australia
• Japan
• France
• Germany
• Mexico
• Brazil
• Spain
• Italy
• India
• Russia
• Austria
• The Netherlands
• Belgium
• Turkey
• Switzerland
• Norway
• Poland
• Sweden
• Hong Kong

Bing has also updated its mobile search results, adding details like extra facts and a URL breadcrumb, deep site links, time-stamps and file types for non-HTML pages.

Here’s a comparison of what Bing’s previous mobile search results looked like on the left-hand column (“Before”), and how they will appear with the new additional details going forward (“After”):

Bing’s Mobile Search Updates: