The Basilica Cistern, a subterranean treasure

If you haven’t yet paid a visit to the Bing homepage today, then we would definitely recommend that you go take a look. But before you do, we thought we’d take the opportunity to tell you a little bit more about it…   The Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia are two of the most recognised and photographed buildings in the world. It’s not hard to understand why – from the Bosphorus, the minarets of the Blue Mosque can be...
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On the Bing homepage – Evel Knievel, a true dare devil

Today’s homepage features what would have been the 72nd birthday of the legendary Evel Knievel, the man who risked all on a motorcycle. If you’ve never seen his death defying stunts, then just type his name into Bing and watch him jump over buses, cars – anything that got in his way! 35 years ago, he came to the attention of the British public when he arrived in England to jump 13 single decker buses. Evel actually crash...
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Bing team take on Windows Phone 7 and search

  Yesterday, we announced Windows Phone 7, the latest addition to the Windows family. The Bing team is very excited, as search is available straight from the start screen. The Search button will bring you Web results, local information, maps and a range of other information – making finding the content that matters most to you faster and easier than before.   Another great thing about the event itself was that...
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Bing Maps welcomes Multimap to the family

The Multimap team have 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. Recently Multimap users have been invited to try the Bing Maps experience and tell us what they think. Using their feedback the most popular features from Multimap as well as some new ones have been combined to form the latest Bing Maps experience. These include: Five map style choices, including...
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Clouds, Maps, Streaming Video & Games all combined in an AMAZING World Cup Map!

Hot off the press, you can now check out “The World Cup Map“. This is a joint project between aerial filming and stock footage experts Skyworks, and interactive web mapping interface specialists Earthware.  In this demo, you can see the new stadiums that South Africa has built for the World Cup along with details on what games are being played in which stadium and ability to download the schedule into your calendar....
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We've gone Footie Mapapptastic!!!!

Bing maps are also ‘kicking’ things off by adding some new apps to the ‘team’ (groan). Launching today are two World Cup Map Apps; the Home Turf Finder and the World Cup Map App, which features live updates on the map throughout competition in South Africa. It combines a variety of features ranging from live scores, standings, fixtures and news, as well as freshly loaded South African stadium imagery and World Cup...
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The World Cup is here!

Today is the day! The 2010 FIFA World Cup kicks off in just a few hours in South Africa, with the host nation playing Mexico.  Here at Bing we have loads of great ways to help you keep up to date on all of the latest details, stats, scores, and news for your favorite teams and players.   Below are just some of the ways that Bing will be bringing you your FIFA World Cup information so be sure to keep checking back to the Bing blog for...
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Celebrate the Summer with Bing

Free ice lolly anyone? Well, during the month of June the Bing Ice Cream Van will be on tour handing out free delicious Bing Ice lollies and giving people the chance to demo the great Bing products and services. The Tour kicked off in Victoria on Monday 7th June and will visiting popular areas in and around London until Wednesday 30th June.  Check out this link to see a Bing Maps collection of where the Bing van will be visiting...
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Help Customers Discover You on Bing UK

When out and about talking to UK customers, I frequently get asked the following questions: ‘How do I get my business listing on Bing?’ ‘How do I improve my ranking within Bing?’ ‘Where do I get information on paid search within Bing?’ The answer never seems neither quick nor simple as it just be. Also, judging by the number of posts we get on this topic within these community sites, I figured action...
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Cake anyone?

No, it’s not gothic Barbie but a cake designed by Jacob Kimmie for the hip cupcake company Molly Bakes. Based in East London, the fashionista turned cup cake maker behind Molly Bakes believes everyday should be a cupcake day. While I tend to agree, it is Molly Bakes’ imaginative designs and cutting-edge cupcakes that are creating a cult following. She also uses free range eggs, fair trade sugar and pure British butters so you know...
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