Bing improves music video search

Little brings more emotion to daily life than music. For many people it's a part of the psyche, lending meaning to everyday events, leaving memories that are specifically associated with a particular song. For instance, reggae songs can bring visions of summer, while Air Supply dredges up memories of middle school dances.

Bing now wishes to help you find all of those sappy songs, in video form -- though the search engine also promises to help find the newer and less sappy ones as well.

Ryn Becker of Bing tells us that "built from the ground up to make it easier for you to access the best music videos available on the web, our new music video experience was designed with music lovers in mind. Whether you're looking for videos of songs and artists you are already familiar with (like Led Zeppelin and Justin Timberlake) or you’re looking to discover the next-up-and-coming artist or revisiting the classics, we've got you covered".

Now when you search for a band name, the most popular video will appear at the top left of the results page. Bing is not just pulling from YouTube either, but also culling the depths of rival video services to get this information.

Microsoft is also quick to point out that "we're not just about top forty artists, in this release we've striven to provide the most comprehensive set of videos possible spanning genres, decades and geography". But beyond that, the service pulls together information by making connections between your search and artist and album information, and provides an album view for a simple song title search.

Becker concludes "with over 1.7 million songs, 70,000 artists and a half a million albums, we’re confident that this release will be music to your ears". Now go find those tracks that bring back your memories, or that you just don't hear enough on the radio today.