The travel section of Bing (www.bing.com/travel) is one of the major upsides to Microsoft's new search engine.

What's hot: Bing Travel combines Farecast flight and hotel information with Microsoft editorial content. You don't have to be within Bing Travel to access handy travel information. From the main Bing search area (www.bing.com), type in the airport codes of your departure and destination airports and watch as reservation numbers pop up along with a sample price and links to a 30-day outlook or deals.

What's not: In our searches for ''Vegas hotels,'' we discovered that the deals promoted did not match once we clicked through to the third-party site. For example, a $129 deal at the Venetian turned into $159 after we clicked through.