Microsoft Corp. added features to its Bing search engine, changing the way results are displayed.

Hoping to compete more vigorously with Google Inc., the Redmond computer giant is adding more information to the “hovering” feature on pages where results are displayed.

Users who point their cursor to the right of a link on a results list will see more information appear nearby in a box, including a “preview” thumbnail shot of the web site at the other end of the link.

Microsoft has also added some data from so-called “deep search” service Wolfram Alpha to its results.

The company shifted its video service to the Bing site this week, and tinkered with its mapping features and local search services.

Bing still has less than 10 percent of the overall online search market, compared with Google’s 70 percent. Yahoo has about 16 percent.