Bing Rolls Out International Hotel Booking Feature & Updates Mobile Search Results
Bing has partnered with TripAdvisor to deliver reviews, booking capabilities and rates for hotel searches in 22 different countries.
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:
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