Bing UK have started a new campaign (which they hope will go viral) where they provide clues to what a new, “exciting”, addition to Bing will be. The first clue is the image below. So what does this clue show us? Well its clearly a vuvulezla which I associate with noise, perhaps Bing will be [...]
Today I saw a tweet from @UKBing inviting people to check out its Travel Destinations Visual Search which I have to say is absolutely stunning both thanks to the pictures and the subtle animations. I had a look around the various destinations and found myself quickly flitting from place to place reading various pieces of [...]
I know Bing has been providing Facebook’s web results when searching on the social networking site for some time but I hadn’t noticed the Bing icon and logo before. When I did a search today I saw it for the first time, does anyone know how long its been there or have I just been [...]
Bing has a new beta page for searches, Bing Social. This pulls information from Twitter and Facebook with options to select the time frame and the source, whether it is public updates or Shared Links. As with most things to do with Facebook at the moment there might be fears about people’s information being shared [...]
Well it looks like I will have to pay a visit to London this month as Microsoft will be giving out free ice creams around the British capital via the Bing Ice Cream van. Microsoft have a Bing map which you can follow where the Bing Ice Cream van will be during the month. I [...]
Last week I shared with you some images from Bing UK’s advertising campaign in which questions were asked and the Bing logo prominently shown on several landmarks in London, today I was tipped off that Bing UK made a video of these projections. I wonder if there will be other such displays over the coming [...]
Microsoft is continuing to spend, spend, spend to gets Bing’s market share to keep increasing. Today I was tweeted by @jont87 who informed me that the background of the International Movie Database is current a big Bing advert. I don’t yet know if this is a global advertising partnership or if its just in the [...]
The latest post on the Bing blog shows how they have updated the user interface of their shopping site, called Ciao! in Europe. The first change that can be seen is on the home page of the shopping service where items are better features and there are no lists of categories down the left side, [...]
Each week Bing UK seems to have a new quirky advertising idea and this week it comes in the way of projecting the Bing logo on the Marble Arch in London. I am looking forward to other ideas the advertisers have for Bing UK, there are certainly plenty of landmarks around the UK they could [...]
I am not sure when this happen but it appears that Bing UK has updated its homepage with the better looking US-like UI, I was tipped off about Bing UK testing out the better navigation last week. This navigation features links to the various parts of Bing on the left hand side rather than above [...]