Comedy character Brian Badonde launches his new web-based series entitled ‘The Art of Technology.’ The series follows Badonde, Facejacker’s eccentric art critic, in his quest to learn more about how technology can enrich his already extravagant life with the help of Bing. The first of a series of web videos launches today exclusively on theartoftechnology.co.uk. Episode one features Badonde’s visit to the London...
Read More

Following the success of our Bing Maps event in October, the Bing UK team is proud to announce our next installment. If you want to hear the latest from the Bing Maps User Community, the next event is being held on Wednesday 19th January at the British Computer Society.  The event will feature one main session updating everyone on the latest releases and there will be demos from members of the group. Johannes Kebeck from Microsoft will be...
Read More

Bing UK has launched a new advertising campaign to run across a series of websites including Channel 4, MTV and IMDB. The ‘Bing is Beautiful’ campaign aims to reinforce Bing as a search engine that can help people make decisions in a visually rich and different way. The campaign will focus on promoting the travel, shopping and nights out features on Bing to capitalise on the main activities people will be thinking about at this time...
Read More

In the first of a series of guest posts, Michael Gillett, Editor at My Microsoft life, shares his thoughts on Bing’s key features. His first post talks about Bing Visual Search. “I have been a Bing user since the search engine was rebranded and relaunched back in 2009 and I have grown to love some of the lesser known features that Bing offers. Visual Search is an excellent example of a feature no other search engine has. It allows sets...
Read More

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...
Read More

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...
Read More

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...
Read More

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...
Read More

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....
Read More

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...
Read More