Bing is a fairly new and generally ignored search engine, and it's too bad because their page shows good understanding of contemporary design choices. Even more surprising is that it does this when the site's owner Microsoft was so easy to critique earlier on this blog. The dark navigation and footer give the entire center of the site a nice panorama feeling, and to add to that more bing actually fills the background that would otherwise be black with beautiful high resolution images that are relevant to the time that the user is visiting them. There are even little points on the image that bring up text kind of like the tags on facebook to show more information about the image and the meaning behind it. Then at the bottom of the page there is a dark opaque bar that appears showing trending searches, images, and videos. everything about it is so clean and I had no idea until I thought to do a bit of research on them. If their searches are as good as advertised they could prove to be a worthy adversary to the powerhouse that is google.
Take notes Yahoo because you could learn a lot from Bing.
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