Life is full of weird and wonderful oddities and we’ve captured some of them in our newest vibrant screensaver pack which features everything from crop circles to a giant squid monument to Australia’s own thorny devil lizard. All of which have featured as daily home page images on Bing Australia. Also featured in the ‘Weird and Wonderful’ themed pack is the Horsfield Tarsier (pictured above). But why are the eyes of this...
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The wait is finally over as Bing Australia officially launches ‘Visual Search’, a feature which is bound to be one of our most popular releases ever. How do we know this? A Microsoft study revealed that Visual Search saves you time refining complex queries enabling you to find what you’re looking for considerably quicker than by using standard search. Now, what is it exactly? Visual Search is an additional search tool that offers...
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Cupid has drawn back his bow and fired off another arrow of love, and fortunately for you all it has struck Bing Australia. Whilst this hasn’t sent us swooning, it has prompted us to make a Valentine’s Day announcement. You can now play free online games on Bing. Whilst you may be at wits end trying to find the romantic link, rest assured that you can choose to hold on to a pair of hearts, visit a beauty salon and search for roses all...
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Bing Australia has created a free screensaver pack that will see your desktop brimming with breath-taking images of the world’s finest architectural feats and monuments, as featured amongst our vibrant daily homepage images.   So, what are you waiting for! Stay tuned for the ‘Wildlife’ and the ‘Weird and Wonderful’ themed screensaver packs – the next in the series. These screensavers will perfectly...
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  G’day, allow us to set the scene … it was 1788 and the First Fleet captained by Arthur Phillip floated into a small bay now known as Sydney Cove. It wasn’t long before Phillip and his crew rowed shore and took possession of the land in the name of King George III. The date January 26 wasn’t known as Australia Day until over a century later but now it’s a significant occasion in most Australian’s calendars...
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As the first tennis Grand Slam of the year is about to kick off in Melbourne, we at Bing Australia have been hitting our own winners off the court. A range of tennis-related features are now available for you to not only use throughout the duration of the Australian Open, but all year round. A search for individual players (Novak Djokovic, for example) will return stats on that player including their most recent results and their official world...
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As we prepare to bid farewell to 2010 and usher in the New Year, we at Bing Australia have taken the opportunity the look back at the year that was. 2010 will be memorable for a number of reasons yet celebrities often stole the limelight and we saw marriages and splits, births and deaths, and enough scandals to last a decade. Now that the dust has settled, who was the year’s most searched celebrity on Bing Australia? It was Aussie bikini...
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  Given the anticipation that surrounds this summer’s biennial Ashes series, we at Bing Australia thought we’d take the opportunity to launch a catalogue of new cricket-themed features that will you put you in more of a spin than Shane Warne’s immortalised ‘ball of the century’! We’re sure you’ll be wanting to track the progress of the Australian team in their quest to reclaim the Ashes from the...
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The Melbourne Cup is widely known as the race that stops a nation. If that title is indicative of the importance the Australian public place on this annual horse race, you might be interested to learn what the most-searched Melbourne Cup-related terms are. Well, we can confidently report that people are far more concerned about Melbourne’s accommodation than Melbourne’s famous restaurants. Meanwhile, fascinators and fashion are...
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We receive a lot of great feedback about our spectacular homepage images and we’ve taken the time to answer some of your most common queries. Want to know more about the subject of the picture? If want to further explore the day’s image, simply mouse over one of the four hotspots and click through to an informative, entertaining link. Each hotspot gives you the opportunity to find out more about the image: what the picture is of, where...
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