Help Your Britain– Lifelites

This week we’re lending our homepage to small charities with the launch of our ‘Help Your Britain’ campaign, showcasing the work of five small UK charities throughout the week and enabling each cause to tell its own story. There are more than 187,000 registered charities across Great Britain with a story to be told, many of whom will never be heard due to the lack of resources at their disposal. We’re shining the spotlight...
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Help Your Britain - Magic Breakfast

This week we’re lending our homepage to small charities with the launch of our ‘Help Your Britain’ campaign, showcasing the work of five small UK charities throughout the week and enabling each cause to tell its own story. There are more than 187,000 registered charities across Great Britain with a story to be told, many of whom will never be heard due to the lack of resources at their disposal. We’re shining the spotlight...
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2011 Bing’s year in review

  2011: The year we couldn’t get enough of Peter Andre MSN and Bing reveal the things that made us curious in 2011. 2011 was the year that Brits couldn’t get enough of Peter Andre, Pippa Middleton’s derrière was blown out of proportion and Cheryl Cole proved she still has it over Tulisa Contostavlos. In an alternative look at the year, we teamed up with the guys at MSN to analyse the top search terms and...
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Bing Festive Fun

It’s Christmas eve, and we’re getting in the festive spirit with a beautiful video homepage today – doesn’t it just make you feel all warm and fuzzy and ready for Christmas? Speaking of which, what do you have planned to keep yourself amused over the holiday season? Visiting the in-laws, eating too much, catching up on some serious gaming? Just in case you’re short of ideas, we’ve asked two of our blogging...
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Into by Windows Phone

  Last week saw the launch of into by Windows Phone, an innovative new social rewards programme for UK Windows Phone owners, their friends and family, and anyone who wants to share and get rewarded. Launched alongside the availability of Windows Phone 7.5 (codename Mango) – which includes some pretty cool Bing features – into by Windows Phone adopts the mantra of Windows Phone, putting people at the centre of their phone...
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Video homepage hops onto Bing UK

We’re super excited to announce our first ever video homepage for Bing UK today, featuring a White-lined leaf frog crawling up a branch, in Manu National Park, Peru. Use the handy hotspots to navigate the tropical image and reveal information about all things amphibian, including the frightening fact that the prettiest frogs are often the deadliest and a link to a video on diamagnetism, a peculiar phenomenon that enables frogs the ability...
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Local is the New Global – the future of retail (event)

Last week we hosted a “Local is the New Global” event at the Hospital Club in London with leading industry experts in search and retail – Dave Coplin (Bing UK), Nick Strafford (Living Social), Gianfranco Ludovici (eBay) and Jonathan Raper (CEO, Placr Ltd) – to discuss the future of retail and whether location-based devices with search, such as smartphones, can help save the high street. The discussion unveiled the benefits...
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Discover more with the Bing iPhone App

We’re taking our first UK foray into the App Store today with an all-in-one Bing search app that lets iPhone users make faster, more informed and localised decisions while on the go. It holds social search at its heart, allowing you to share search results with friends and family via text, e-mail and Facebook at a touch. There’s all the usual features that desktop Bing users know and love (such as the daily homepage image and...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes - Bing gets ready for Halloween

We’ve gone all spooky at Bing today to celebrate Halloween, with a homepage featuring a sinister looking gargoyle in front of a dark and moody sky. Scroll over the hotspots to read about all things Halloween including the origins of this chilling night and costume ideas if you’re in need of some last minute inspiration!   As part of our Halloween festivities we’ve asked Phil from Blogomatic3000 to help us pick out the best...
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