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I have become obsessed with Bing.com. I first saw it advertised in a commercial on TV and at the time I did not know exactly what it was as the commercials were a bit unclear. It was obviously a web site of some kind, and seemed to be some sort of search engine, yet based on the ad's it also seemed to be something more than just a search engine, so one day when I was bored I decided to check it out to see just what the deal was.

As it turns out it is a search engine that is designed to act as a sort of travel directory, the information and such it provides seems geared mostly toward things relating to travel, so as a search engine I never actually use it, but for its homepage, ever day it has a new photograph up, and they are photos taken of unusual are really cool things from all over the world.

Sometimes they are just really cool nature/scenery photographs from somewhere, or sometimes cool animal photographs, or photos of something unique, in jive with the main focus of the search engine they are things that are like tourist attractions, but everyday I have to pop onto bing just to see what the new photo will be.

Also the photos are semi-interactive, each photo has three hidden little links in it and when you roll your most over them, it gives some information about what is portrayed in the photo and provides additional links if you want even further information about it.

Today's photo was of this unusual bit of artwork known as Carhenge in Nebraska I think it was, and it was a replica of Stonehenge made up all of old cars that had been painted silver.
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  1. Nightshade's Avatar
    OOH you are right this is an addictive site
  2. AimusSage's Avatar
    Bing is the follow up to Microsoft Live search etc. Bing also powers Yahoo! search. It's not just a re branding of life search though. They also made improvements to the engine. If it'll manage to replace google as the #1 search engine remains to be seen.

    It has a number of services that allow you to search specific aspects, such as health and travel, maybe you have the travel service set as standard and as such all your results are geared toward travel.
  3. Nightshade's Avatar
    There you go! You took the fun right out of it!

    Although to be scrupulously honest the first thing I thought when I saw it was where are my Search engine and information retrieval notes this is an interesting comparison.

    Humm maybe I will do a blog about Search engines ..
    Updated 08-26-2009 at 09:53 AM by Nightshade
  4. Dark Muse's Avatar
    As a search engine I think nothing will beat google for me.
  5. Niamh's Avatar
    really? wow! gotta check it out!
  6. qimissung's Avatar
    I love the pictures on Bing, too.
  7. Nightshade's Avatar
    oh new day do you think they have anew picture up already?


    Edit: Answer = not yet.
  8. Niamh's Avatar
    oh such pretty pic!
  9. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Last time I looked there was a new picture, one taken in New Zeland I think it is.
  10. Niamh's Avatar
    can i just say, that is a pretty cool search engine!
  11. Niamh's Avatar
    yeah the pic i see is of New Zealand. very pretty.
  12. qimissung's Avatar
    Is that the one with the flowers and the river?
  13. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Hehe yeah
  14. Nightshade's Avatar
    New picture today and I knew ( well almost I got the wrong one) where it was without looking!
    I was proper chuffed with myself. (I obviously really need to get a life)
  15. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Hehe I haven't yet looked at todays, lol I usually like to try and guess where they are from before I check the links, but I am usually always wrong.
  16. Red-Headed's Avatar
    Bing is still beta in the UK. I like to look at the different picture everyday as well. I must say that I use Ask Jeeves & Leapfish a lot as well.
  17. 1n50mn14's Avatar
    Neat-o, I should definitely go check that out.