Bing Features: Video

Continuing our look at Bing’s key features today we are focusing on Bing Video.  Whether you want to watch a TV show, see the latest music video or tune into your favourite sports star. Bing Video allows you to do all this and all without having to leave the search engines website. Bing Video has been designed to allow the user to find and watch content as quickly and easily as possible. Once you’ve searched you can preview the...
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Bing Features: Visual Search

After celebrating a year in the UK the team at Bing wanted to showcase some of our great features. Bing was created out of a wish to offer the user a more rich experience than just ten blue links and one example of this is Visual Search. Visual Search is an exciting and innovative experience that allows the user to explore complex data in a visual way. Want to see the 30 most popular celebrities on Bing? Or find an Oscar winning female actress...
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Three new Visual Search galleries released

For last-minute Christmas shopping and New Year’s Eve party planning, three new Visual Search galleries for women’s dresses, women’s shoes and women’s underwear were released last night. The new additions join a plethora of galleries including women’s handbags, cocktails and celebrities. The new galleries features include:Women’s dressesChoose from over 800 dresses from over 140 designers. Sort by designer...
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A year in the life of Bing

It’s been an incredible first year for Bing. During this time we’ve worked hard to make your online search experience a visually rich experience, rather than providing text heavy blue lines. Bing has led the way in offering image based searches with our Visual Search engine where users can do everything from finding out Prince William’s age to the world’s most remote beaches. The team are very proud of some of the key...
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Technology More Influential Than Fashion In Changing Perceptions Of Beauty

Fashion and art have long been credited for leading the charge when it comes to our ideas about beauty. Yet, according to new research we conducted at Bing, 58 per cent of Brits feel it is technology that has most changed their perception of beauty over the last 10 years. This compares to 55 per cent of people who say fashion has, 26 per cent who say art has and 12 per cent who say architecture has. It isn’t just our perceptions of beauty...
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A few features to share...

With our first birthday on the horizon, we wanted to share a few features to make your searching simpler. Picture this scenario; have you ever stumbled upon a great site for a restaurant on a Friday afternoon which is so good that you can’t wait to share your discovery? With Bing’s new social sharing feature, you’ll be able to share this search with friends with one click of a button using Messenger, email, Twitter...
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BING STUDY REVEALS HUMANS RELY ON VISUAL INSTINCT

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Today we released a new study that reveals how technology has influenced people’s perceptions of beauty, which could be the reason why Brad and Angeline Jolie – one of Hollywood’s hottest couples – have now been replaced by quirky celebrities and public figures at the nation’s favourite beauties....
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A picture paints a thousand words

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Ever since human civilisation first realised that Chinese whispers was not the most reliable way of disseminating information, they sought for ways to rectify this malaise. With one invention they were able to free themselves from the shackles of ‘pre-history’ and enter the golden age of ‘history’ – the written word. With this tool generals were able to...
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Expert panel discuss and debate UK mapping innovation

Excitement is growing at Bing HQ! We’ve been hard at work building a new version of Bing Maps for the UK, and are now ready to share the experience with Multimap users. On Wednesday 27th October we will host our first ever informal panel and Q&A session with a range of industry specialists and mapping experts. The event will give us the opportunity to showcase the latest innovations from Bing Maps UK and to highlight the leading digital...
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