Our homepage today features Apple Day, an annual UK event designed to celebrate all things related to this wonderful fruit and support local apple growers. The homepage features a fantastic picture of an apple orchard in Kent and lots of fruity information in the hotspots. It’s also National Baking week, so to celebrate both of these events we’ve asked Sarah Trivuncic from Maison Cupcake to share one of her favourite baked apple...
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On Thursday 13 October, Bing’s Head of Search, Dave Coplin, spoke at the Parliamentary Internet Conference about the vision and opportunities of the Internet, and how we can use social media and innovation to drive growth and democracy. Speaking alongside Dave were several key industry leaders, including Ed Vazey, Minister of State for Culture, Communications & Creative Industries through to Richard Allan, Director of Policy EU, Facebook...
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The Bing team is going nuts for conkers today with our homepage highlighting the World Conker Championships, which has sadly been cancelled this year due to weather conditions. Our very own content editor, Eddie Wrenn, took part in the World Conker Championships for two years running so we’ve asked him to share his experience: “Until a month before my first contest, I didn’t start thinking strategically about my game – I...
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  As many of you will be aware, last week we unveiled the next chapter in the evolution of Windows Phone. Windows Phone 7.5 — codename “Mango”— delivers an enhanced Bing Search experience, which you can access at anytime using the dedicated search button to help you quickly find what you want. With the introduction of features such as Bing Vision, Bing Music, and Local Scout, you’ll benefit from Bing integrating...
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Need some inspiration on what to do tonight? Bing has just made planning a night out a whole lot easier with the launch of Bing Events. This new search feature covers 90,000 events in over 10,000 venues in over 2,450 UK locations. Search for information on thousands of music, theatre, dance, festivals, family and sporting events. Simply search for the name of a place plus the word ‘events’ and then click on the events tab to find out...
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Today on the Bing.com homepage we’re featuring the dramatic Happisburgh coastline in the Norfolk Broads. The Bing Hotspots which you can access by rolling over areas of the homepage image offer links to further information about the eroded coastline in the Norfolk Broads, which is disappearing faster than anywhere else in Britain, at the rate of 40 feet per year. One of the Hotspots drives you to learn more about the erosion and the defence...
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Check out the behind-the-scenes footage from the Bing Your Britain gallery event showcase hosted by rapper, Dizzee Rascal. (Please visit the site to view this video)  
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Bing UK is launching the GetMeThere app, a London travel helper, which is available today on Windows Phone for free. GetMeThere is the only app to make use of Bing maps and the London Underground live updates together, so there’s no need to flick from app to app to get from A to B. For any tourist, travelling through London can be daunting when you’re standing in an unfamiliar city with no tube station in sight. Even if you’re a...
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Bing.com announces a new Attractions feature giving over users instant access to key information on over 50,000 points of interest in 6,600 cities worldwide. The feature which launches this week, spans a range of global attractions from comedy festivals and museums, to historical sites and panoramic spots.   Bing Attractions helps guide and inspire users around the globe by allowing them to enter a destination city or country, before...
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Bing.com has announced m.bing.com, which provides advanced smart search tools across multiple mobile platforms, helping people make better decisions wherever they roam.   Similar to the features that are popular with desktop Bing users, the m.bing.com homepage shows Bing’s inspiring daily image and hotspots, and from here users can now easily navigate to maps and directions, localised information, and image search. Searching now...
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