Dizzee Rascal continues his quest to capture inspirational Britain with a trip to his favourite old school barbers as part of an inspiring, original collection of his images for the Bing.com ‘Your Britain’ photography project. The Mercury prize winning artist photographed inside the D & L’s Barbers on Hornsey Rd in Islington, London, which he regularly visits to fix up and look sharp. This retro, memory filled location is the...
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Multi award-winning music artist, Dizzee Rascal, visits the Yorkshire Sculpture Park as part of Bing.com’s ‘Your Britain’ national photography competition. He’s been travelling around the UK capturing images of Britain which inspire him most and one of his striking photos from the Sculpture Park is appearing on the search engine’s homepage today.
Describing the choice for his latest shot Dizzie said: “I...
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Dizzee Rascal’s photograph, taken from the inside of the Olympic Stadium, is a rare glance at this mammoth sports and regeneration project. It’s also an insight into Dizzee’s life and inspiration. When Dizzee visited the Olympic Stadium to take photographs for Bing.com he felt a personal connection between this immense project, the East London of his youth and the regenerated East London of the future. It’s a truly...
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On Monday 16 May 2011, multi award-winning music artist, Dizzee Rascal, is launching Bing.com’s ‘Your Britain’ national photography competition and continuing in the search engine’s quest to attract its audience using inspirational visuals. Dizzee will curate Bing’s homepage, Bing.com, with a collection of original images he has taken which show the places, buildings, environments and the moments in time that...
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Bing is celebrating the Royal Wedding through its
homepage. As a UK first, the Bing homepage and its respective hotspots,
is set to change throughout the course of the day to reveal more topical images
and fascinating facts surrounding the big day. The
first image of the day is a...
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We have been working hard on improving Bing News and today we are proud to announce significant developments to our search algorithms, resulting in a much more relevant search experience, helping you find the information you’re looking for even easier and quicker than before.
Among the improvements, search results now pull in many more UK sources and are much fresher and diverse. In particular, the below search screenshot for...
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We are really excited about the news from Hitwise, search experts offering intelligence for online advertising and search marketers, which shows the gap between Google and Bing in the UK is slowly beginning to close. We still have a long way to go, but since Bing is the only search engine to increase its volume of searches from UK Internet users over the course of the last 12 months, we believe we’re offering a different kind of search...
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Aggregate your social networks and favourite web content into one convenient place using the new Bing Bar
Building on Bing’s mission to help people make better decisions, the new Bing Bar keeps you connected to your social networks, provides rapid access to the top tasks you do online, and has a rich visual design to help simplify decision-making.
Taking into consideration 60 per cent of us have more than one personal email account, and...
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This week Dave Coplin, Bing’s Director of Search, joined The Guardian’s Charles Arthur and Aleks Krotoski on the acclaimed Tech Weekly podcast to thrash out the latest news and issues in the world of tech.
In the latest episode the panel explores the origins, impact and future of search engines which Aleks describes as “the killer app of the web”. Dave and Aleks discuss the importance of understanding human...
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To all our followers, the sixth and final ‘Art of Technology’ webisode from Facejacker’s comedy character, Brian Badonde can now be viewed on the dedicated YouTube channel here.
The sixth episode features Badonde’s trip to a perfume parlour where learns all about the science of scent, getting wholly confused about the origins of ambergris, a bizarre substance that is regurgitated by sperm whales and used in the...
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