Today Bing UK has announced that it is now possible for people in Britain to search for events around the UK. This feature has been available in the US for some time but has now been fully enabled in the UK. I was actually using the event listing back in August when looking for something [...]
Experian Hitwise realised UK search data for the month of July in which Bing has been shown to do very well, growing a whole 0.96% in a single month. There was more good news for Microsoft as Bing has regained it’s lead over Yahoo in the UK search market and also Bing is the only [...]
Today if you visit Bing UK you will see the winning photo (also below) of the Your Britain competition that has been on going for the past few months. I first blogged about the competition back on May 17th when photos taken by Dizzee Rascal appeared on the Bing homepage for a week. There were [...]
Bing UK have updated its news page to bring a lot more news to the page for quicker access to the news from around the world. Read more about this. This new design is now like the US however the UK version misses the “Popular Now” links at the top and the weather of the [...]
On Saturday, as followers of mine will know, I was in London for a Bing Your Britain day in which some bloggers from around the UK were invited to a master class followed by a photo competition. I found the master class by Jackie King to be really useful as we whistled through white balance, [...]
Today at SES London Dave Coplin, the Bing Evangelist for the UK, took part in a Real Time Search discussion with others from the search industry. Mel Carson of Microsoft Advertising had the chance to interview him about search and Bing and even when some of the US features of Bing would be coming to [...]
Today I did a Bing search and saw one of the new Bing Tiles that Liveside have been blogging about the past few days. Below you can see several tiles next to search listings of “The King’s Speech” (its a great film if you haven’t seen it yet). I don’t know if this feature has [...]
Bing UK have launched a new site today showing users just how beautiful Bing is and some of its great features. The site is at http://www.thisbeautifulthing.co.uk/ and is a video of someone using Bing with a tropical island background. The odd thing is the video is built with Flash and not Silverlight; annoyingly. I have [...]
It appears that Bing UK will make known their announcement tomorrow morning at 9:30. This announcement will follow several clues to what might be announced; I have been trying to figure it out to no avail. The final clue is this: The clue is accompanied by the following text: Here’s the final clue! Visit http://www.theartoftechnology.co.uk/ [...]
Bing UK are going to be announcing new soon and are teasing us with clues to work out what this new thing will be. Today they have released the second clue. I am now not sure what it might be. after the first clue, a vuvulezla, I thought it was going to be Bing Entertainment [...]