Sunday, October 28, 2012

Bing: a 360 ° home page

Microsoft embellishes its search engine Bing and now offers a panoramic home page.

 While Google setting a homepage purified, Microsoft continues to share his stand search engine.  Last year, the company unveiled a new version of Bing adopting HTML5 technologies.  The launch was crowned by the presentation, not a static image in the background but a video.  This time Microsoft introduces a panoramic image.

 If Microsoft is working hard to improve the relevance of the results of its engine Bing, the company also entice the user with its imagery base.  Recently, the company introduced the ability to configure the images on Bing.com lock screen of Windows 8.  Today, visitors visiting the home page of Bing observe a dynamic panorama enabled by default and can be traversed with the mouse or finger on touch screens.  The photo was captured on Bastei in Saxon Switzerland, a region of Germany.

 The image is taken from the book 360cities.net, among others welcoming the panoramas captured by the application of Microsoft Photosynth.

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