January 22, 2010

Recipes in Bing

What's For Dinner? Bing Mixes Recipes Into Search Results, Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land (Jan 21)

Bing will show recipes on many food-related queries. It knows chocolate chip cookies but not lemon bars.

"Bing pulls from a number of popular recipe websites (delish.com, MyRecipes.com, epicurious.com.com, etc.) to bring you correlating recipes that you can sift through by holiday, meals, ratings, and my personal favorite, convenience (with a 10 month old at home, quick is key) and much more."

Postscript: Bing Launches a Recipe Feature, Research Buzz (Jan 25) - Tara Calishain provides a detailed review - and points to one serious weakness - can't look for special needs recipes.

Posted by Gwen at January 22, 2010 02:51 PM