Potential… Yes, but the cool stuff only seems to work fro the really big names so far. The "britney spears" example from the demo is impressive, but even your digital camera search is merely promising, the links on the left don't seem to add much. Again, the only search I could find where those links really add value is the britney spears search. Obviously, there was a reason they demo'd with that.

MS still has to work hard on making the features you mention useful. Which is fine, although I would expect a giant like MS trying to win the search war to put a lot of resouerces into this even before it goes live.

Admittedly, Bing seems an improvement over Live, but like Live I think it's geared towards a less experienced audience.

BTW, if anyone can tell me how to start a travel search that gives you all the impressive price comparisons and value over time graphs – please let me know.

I'm definitely less excited than after seeing the demo, but hey, it's not like there's no search engine I can use until Bing finds its stride…