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After an amazing week at the annual MGX conference for Microsoft’s sales and marketing ‘field’ – people like me who work in places like the UK rather than directly on products in Redmond – I made a subtle but important change to my browser – I flipped my default homepage to Bing:

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I’ve never been a homepage person, as my workflow is open IE > Bing it through searchbox OR type in URL directly > View page. But with the new Bing experience I’ve started to appreciate the user experience that it provides with the aesthetically pleasing background images.

Check out Bing Image Archive to see more of the cool background images. There is even a Bing Photo Contest on Facebook to have users’ summer travel photos voted to be put on the Bing.com homepage

Bing It On

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  • Anonymous
    July 26, 2009
    Bing is definitely better looking than Google, but does it really work better?

  • Anonymous
    July 26, 2009
    I'm more a google user but I should give a try at bing... :D