Following the launch of five Bing apps for Windows 8 in October, Microsoft is pleased to announce significant updates are now rolling out across News, Sport, Travel, Finance and Maps. Including useful and personalisable features, the app updates are designed to help you get to the information you want faster.  News This customisable app is perfect for those who want their news personalised, allowing you to keep tabs on specific story...
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Those of you who enjoy using the Bing image search function will have noticed some changes this week to the way in which the service works. We’ve made a few changes that follow on from the refresh in June 2012 – the image search function now offers bigger thumbnails, related searches, and an exploration pane to make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for, fast.   Dense Image Layout – we’ve enhanced the...
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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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Bing UK has a new ‘news browse’ page that makes it easier than ever to scan headlines and pinpoint news. With reading news one of the most popular online activities in the UK, the fresh and visual design of the new news browse page will feature even more UK sources to ensure even greater relevancy, as well as including pictures in each search result. For easy browsing, news is now split into the following categories: top stories...
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January is our top month for online travel searches here at Bing, so we thought that adding a new feature to help you work out where and when to go might help. When it comes to travel research, we know that trawling through pages of text can be boring, so we wanted to make it more of a visual experience. After all, from our own research, we found that many of you are keen to be inspired by the travel content you find online. The Places Ecard...
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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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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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