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You can't see this unless you're set to United States in your preferences, but it does look extremely like old Google, which is no bad thing.

by EwanToo 15y ago

tzaman 15y ago
I'm not in US - screenshot please?
- bitsushi 15y ago
  http://www.bing.com/search?q=bing+%3D+retro+google%3F&setmkt=en-US http://www.bing.com/search?q=bing+%3D+retro+google%3F&se...
  - mladenkovacevic 15y ago
    Whats that weird strip at the top? It looks like some image that's been cut off.
    - pavanky 15y ago
      Probably on a linux / osx thing. I am having the same problem with firefox in Linux. props to Bing engineers for messing that up.
    - mturmon 15y ago
      It's a small strip of the landing page image present on http://bing.com http://bing.com . Its tooltip is "Explore today's homepage". If you click on the small strip, you indeed go back to the landing page. If you click on the bing icon, though, you also go back to the landing page. So this little bit of refinement seems to highlight the ever-changing-landing-image as a part of the bing experience.
    - panacea 15y ago
      I'm sure there were enumerable back and forth discussions about that. Bing differentiated itself in the beginning with the large background image on the homepage as opposed to the simple colourful logo on white background that defined the Google experience. Then Google copied the background image idea. Now Bing has gone minimal, but there's obviously still some residual pull/desire around using imagery. That little strip is a remnant. Like a human appendix it's a residual organ that wasn't completely eradicated as it evolved into the current design.
      - shpoonj 15y ago
        Do you have a screenshot of Google with a background image? I don't recall ever seeing one.
        panacea 15y ago
        Google added it as a "feature" and made it a default for a short amount of time to market the background customization option: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/09/google-adds-a-background-image-to-its-homepage-by-default-at-least-for-24-hours/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/09/google-adds-a-background-im...
- raldi 15y ago
  I am in the U.S.; can you post a screenshot too? (I tried changing en-US to de-DE in bitsushi's link, but the layout seemed the same. Maybe it's because I'm on an iPad?)
- antninja 15y ago
  just add &cc=us at the end of your query string. http://www.bing.com/search?q=hn&cc=us http://www.bing.com/search?q=hn&cc=us

You can't see this unless you're set to United States in your preferences, but it does look extremely like old Google, which is no bad thing.

by EwanToo 15y ago

You can't see this unless you're set to United States in your preferences, but it does look extremely like old Google, which is no bad thing.

tzaman 15y ago

I'm not in US - screenshot please?

bitsushi 15y ago
http://www.bing.com/search?q=bing+%3D+retro+google%3F&setmkt=en-US http://www.bing.com/search?q=bing+%3D+retro+google%3F&se...
- mladenkovacevic 15y ago
  Whats that weird strip at the top? It looks like some image that's been cut off.
  - pavanky 15y ago
    Probably on a linux / osx thing. I am having the same problem with firefox in Linux. props to Bing engineers for messing that up.
  - mturmon 15y ago
    It's a small strip of the landing page image present on http://bing.com http://bing.com . Its tooltip is "Explore today's homepage". If you click on the small strip, you indeed go back to the landing page. If you click on the bing icon, though, you also go back to the landing page. So this little bit of refinement seems to highlight the ever-changing-landing-image as a part of the bing experience.
  - panacea 15y ago
    I'm sure there were enumerable back and forth discussions about that. Bing differentiated itself in the beginning with the large background image on the homepage as opposed to the simple colourful logo on white background that defined the Google experience. Then Google copied the background image idea. Now Bing has gone minimal, but there's obviously still some residual pull/desire around using imagery. That little strip is a remnant. Like a human appendix it's a residual organ that wasn't completely eradicated as it evolved into the current design.
    - shpoonj 15y ago
      Do you have a screenshot of Google with a background image? I don't recall ever seeing one.
      - panacea 15y ago
        Google added it as a "feature" and made it a default for a short amount of time to market the background customization option: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/09/google-adds-a-background-image-to-its-homepage-by-default-at-least-for-24-hours/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/09/google-adds-a-background-im...
raldi 15y ago
I am in the U.S.; can you post a screenshot too? (I tried changing en-US to de-DE in bitsushi's link, but the layout seemed the same. Maybe it's because I'm on an iPad?)
antninja 15y ago
just add &cc=us at the end of your query string. http://www.bing.com/search?q=hn&cc=us http://www.bing.com/search?q=hn&cc=us