Although it had a rough start, Bing has actually become an excellent search engine, and the only one in Western markets that’s been able to hold its own against Google. This is thanks the fact that it’s backed by a company as large as Microsoft, and has put a lot of focus on securing partnerships with other companies to power their search engines. AOL has become the latest such company, with Microsoft announcing in a recent blog post that Bing now powers all of AOL search across every platform: computers, smartphones, and tablets.