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Google is great but what about Bing?

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Rowan
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Google is great but what about Bing?

Post by Rowan » Wed May 16th, 2012, 2:06 pm

Google is exceptional at creating unique images for various holidays and occasions, but have any of you seen the images that are on Bing's search page? There's a different one every day and today's is a stunning photograph of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire. There are always at least four areas on the photo you can click on which will give you information about what is photographed. One of those links for the abbey is an aerial view of the ruins.

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Post by Madeleine » Wed May 16th, 2012, 2:46 pm

Following your hint, I went to Bing and found a lovely picture of a couple of llamas on the start page. Perhaps the pic varies according to what part of the world you're in? Thanks for the hint though, I'll try to remember to look more often. Yahoo also sometimes have a little cartoon, in the top left hand corner of their start page.

Edited to say I just tried both their US and UK homepages, and got the llamas both times.
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Post by Rowan » Wed May 16th, 2012, 6:32 pm

The llamas were a week ago for me. You can scroll back to see previous days' photos. How weird!! Maybe this time next week you will see the abbey.

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Post by Rowan » Thu May 17th, 2012, 2:37 pm

Yesterday I asked my friend in Canada to look as well and she saw what you saw. Very strange. Today it's a breathtaking photograph of a gorge in Norway.

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Post by Madeleine » Mon May 28th, 2012, 1:20 pm

Today's pic - UK anyway - is a lovely photo of a large group of manta rays, beautiful.
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