Microsoft's Visual Search tool, introduced earlier this week, turns out to be a pretty helpful platform for browsing free and paid iPhone applications. It's a trade-off: you won't have to fire up iTunes, but you will have to install Silverlight.
Reader Anunay writes in with the link to turn Bing into a robust search for iPhone apps. From left-hand links, you can narrow your search by broad categories, specific prices, publishers, or other criteria. Hovering over an app icon gives you ranking, category, and release date information, and clicking an icon brings you to a Bing search page for that app—which, in turn, generally leads you to a developer's page and iTunes link. For those who don't like to (or can't) fire up iTunes to browse and search apps, it's a decent alternative, even if it requires installing a third-party plug-in
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