Microsoft started a new trial to rival Google with its BING search (bing.com)
some translate the name to But-Its-Not-Google
I will give it a try over the next couple of days/weeks as my primary search engine. I think it would be good to have a bigger competition to google.
Some things I like so far:
The translation tool gives side by side comparison and lets you translate into other languagues other than your standard language.
Searching for images has some neat tools like filter for color or black and wide images or images with peoples faces only, head and shoulders
Not perfect yet but promising start.
For news I like the google style a bit better because it lets me restrict to german or Uk news for example.
[Edit: actually its possible by changing the language on top]