Microsoft has announced new Bing homepage for Android and iOS devices in the wake of users demanding the mobile site to support a swipe-up card design.
Microsoft has been doing a lot of good things recently, and the company's recent venture is no different. According to WorldTechToday, it recently redesigned the Bing homepage for mobile devices and, needless to mention, the whole thing appears to look great.
Although Bing is not the top search engine in the world at the moment, recent moves by Microsoft could change that in just a few years.
One of the most recent changes comes in the form of a new visual appeal for those on mobile devices. Bing's former design was coming up short as far as looks and functionality were concerned. Thus, Microsoft opted to switch things up a bit.
According to the company, the new design that will be available on Android and Apple phones will boast a new feature that enables iPhone and Android users to swipe in order to close Bing cards. In addition, the tech giant also brings the Bing image of the day to the forefront. This feature is the most unique thing about Bing.
The Popular Now Card is another great feature. This card shows all the trending news and entertainment happenings on the web. Users can also view the weather in their area, besides other important information from this tool.
As far as Bing Rewards are concerned, Microsoft has also made it easier for mobile users to access the reward page, and to see all the cool stuff they have gained just by searching with Bing.
Numerous Bing Mobile users participate in Bing Rewards. Microsoft created a new Bing Rewards. Microsoft created an enhanced way to access Bing Rewards and made it simpler to see their rewards status. Moreover, the company even created a new Rewards card and gave it prime real-estate.This card not only gives users a convenient entry point to Bing Rewards but it also gives them a quick way to view their Bing search settings.
But its new mobile friendly Bing homepage for iOS and Android devices is not the only reason why Microsoft has been in the news lately.
Formerly known as Live Search, Windows Live Search and MSN Search, Bing is a web search engine from Microsoft.
The Bing Image Widget that was unveiled last summer as beta, enabled webmasters to smarten up their sites with snippets of code that embedded digital images as well as photos generated by relevant search results, according to EWeek.
Getty's September 4 court filing in New York claimed the widget allowed website publishers to embed a panel on their websites that will display digital images supplied by Microsoft via its proprietary Bing Image Search engine. Getty Images had charged Microsoft with wholesale Web harvesting to build its image index and infringing on Getty copyrights.
With Getty Images' lawsuit against Microsoft's short-term Bing Image Widget settled this week, the case that underlined the sometimes-contentious crossing between copyright and automated content redistribution came to an end.
Now, seven months later, the companies have ended the case and Getty Images has reportedly struck up an agreement that will bring the company's image portfolio to Bing and Cortana, among other Microsoft offerings, the same article by EWeek noted.
In a brief April 7 announcement, Getty Images said that in the coming years, its technology team will partner up with Microsoft's technology team to provide real-time access to Getty Images imagery and associate metadata to improve the Microsoft user experience.
Meanwhile, Getty Images has reportedly been working on app experience of its own.
