Accelerators are new to Internet Explorer 8 and they are designed to speed up your web browsing experience. You may do this by providing fast access to functions that you’d normally take longer to reach through copying and pasting into other sites. Take for example, an address. Maybe you want to get a map to a specific address. You find the address on a website, you highlight it, copy it, open it up in another website like Google Maps or MapQuest, paste it in there and you catch your map eventually.

Well, we can save a lot of time using an Accelerator, so let’s test this out. I am going to use the Burj Dubai website. Here on contact us page, we do have the information regarding the venue of Burj Dubai, so we can highlight the address. And when you let go after dragging across that text, you will notice a little Accelerator icon appears. And you can click that to display your default Accelerators, and these are the ones that actually come with Internet Explorer 8 already installed and set up as your defaults.

So you can blog, or you can send e-mails etc. There is map with Bing right there and when I hover over Map with Bing, I actually see a map for that particular selected address.

And of course, I can access this site just by clicking instead of hovering and it’s going to open up a new tab and give me all of the tools that I need for looking up this map. You can see I have got Aerial view, Bird’s eye view, and Traffic, and all kinds of cool tools built into my Maps here at Bing.

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