Use Bing, if you want to know about Winter Olympics

Many, many of us do not know about various sports , games being featured in ongoing Winter Olympics 2010. Sports and Games in the regular Olympics are well known and popular in most part of the world but Winter Olympics features sports which are very curious and we can learn a lot of new things about them. The best way is Bing. Bing is featuring 4 images a day , related to these Winter Olympics 2010 during the games. And the ‘hotspots’ on the bing homepage takes you to treasure of information.

Google also is providing its Daily Doodle on Olympics which takes you to what’s happening , latest medals tally etc. But nothing of the sort of info provided by Bing. Bing not only does all this providing latest medal tally, results etc but also enriches your knowledge on these curious Winter games.

For example, few days back Google had this doodle -

 

So one doesn’t know what it is? Can’t recognize what it is.  Its the ancient sport called Curling, but what it is? Many of us don’t know. It’ll be hard way to find out what’s it all about. I came to know about it from today’s Bing Homepage.

And compare it with today’s Bing page showing this sport of Curling-

 

Bing not only provides these stunning sports and games picture but via its hotspots one can learn, what’s this ancient sport of Curling is. As this is what one of the hotspot links shows- Chess masters don't use terms like sheets, stones, and sweeping.So why do they call it chess on

Go to the Bing Homepage and start enriching your knowledge about strange, curious, interesting sports and games in Winter Olympics. And what’s more Bing is providing 4 images a day during the Olympics and you can always scroll through back images with its option. Bing NOW !!

Olympics Button removed from MSN Toolbar

On the occasion of Olympics, MSN Toolbar was updated with Olympics Button/tab (MSN Toolbar updated with Olympics, Stocks buttons) and now as they are over, the button was removed from the MSN Toolbar today. The update was automatic. This is very convenient as it does not involve user intervention.

Live Search 19th Aug 08

Here are Live Search background images for 19th Aug. 08

 

Live Search 18th Aug 08

Here are the Live Search background images for 18th Aug.

Yesterday the background image change for Live Search for the evening had some kind of caching issue for me. Actually the home page with image I was getting was an image which had already occurred earlier. Thanks to LiveSino , I have taken the below image from them.

Live Search 17 Aug. 08

Here are the Live Search background images for 17th Aug. 08

 

Follow the Olympics

The ongoing Beijing Olympics are in center of World these days, everybody wants to know what’s happening at Beijing.And many of you must be following it in many ways. Microsoft technologies are also present in the Beijing and bringing it in many ways. Let us see how,

Silverlight powered NBC Olympics site www.nbcolympics.com NBC site in partnership with Microsoft where you can have hours and hours of video. But sadly due to international broadcasting rights regulations its only available for US. Still its usage statistics are very impressive, it attracts over 6 million users daily, who have already watched nearly 3.5 million hours of video content. Some details providing amazing statistics for first four days which appeared on eweek : 8 million Silverlight downloads per day, 13.5 million video streams active, On August 11th Silverlight delivered 250TB of data.

Also you can find NBC Olympics channel through your Windows Media Center.

Live Search is bringing the Olympics by providing many new features, You can get all your Olympics related queries answered,

*Medals Count - search for ‘Olympic Medals’ and you'll get up-to-the-minute tallies by country

*Medal Count by Country

*Medal Count by Sport

*Medal Count by Country and Sport

*Athletes

Then there’s new Olympics xRank category added in Live Search which provides ranks to athletes according to their Popularity.

Apart from that Live Search Home Page is providing Stunning Pictures from Beijing Olympics as its Home Page background which changes twice, daily.And I am also posting those beautiful pictures here on my blog on day-to–day basis.

Also Live Search Home Page at Bottom right provides a link to get the latest happening at Olympics ,

You can install MSN Toolbar for your IE about which I had posted Few days back, MSN Toolbar updated with Olympics, Stocks buttons. The Olympics Tab gives lots of Olympic related information starting from Medal count, News, photos, videos and game specific news.

You can also follow the Olympics On Your Mobile Phone. Thanks to a partnership between Lenovo, Intel, and Zumobi, Windows Mobile users now have access to an app called the “Olympic Zoom Space,” which is available via a free download at http://lenovo.zumobi.com. This four-tile zoom space, like other Zumobi downloads, lets you quickly and easily view news and photos from the web without need of your web browser. (source:Get The Olympics On Your Mobile Phone)

There’s Olympic Medal Count Vista Gadget Beijing 2008 Olympic Medal Count Gadget (source)

So it is time to enjoy the Olympics wherever you are.

Live Search 16 Aug. 08

Here are Live Search Home Page backgrounds for 16th Aug.

 

Live Search 15 Aug. 08

Here are background images of Live Search for 15 Aug. 08

 

Live Search 14 Aug. 08

Continuing with my series posts regarding Live Search Home Page Olympics backgrounds, here are some more of the amazing pictures.

 

Try Live Search Now !

Live Search 12 Aug. 08

I thought of posting various Live Search Olympics Home Page changed during the Olympics Games. So I’ll be posting it regularly, almost daily till Beijing Olympics closing ceremony . Here’s a set of beautiful images put up recently.

And if you have not started using Live Search, start using it, give it a try. It has improved a lot with great features, try the image and video search.

Live Search Homepage gets Olympics Bird’s Nest background

I  just finished watching the the Grand and Spectacular opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics. With Live Search Team announcing “We're bringing the Olympics to you” , I was just waiting and now I can see the Live Search Home Page  (China Region) showing the Bird’s Nest Stadium where the Opening Ceremony took place. Btw the Lighting of the Olympics Flame was spectacular.

You can change the Market to P.R.China or can go here to check it. It does not have Hotspots. Quality of this picture is not as good as earlier Home Page pictures provided on US region. Hope to see much better pictures on Live Search Home Page in future for all markets region.

UPDATE : Now Live Search (US Market) has also updated the Live Search Home page with Beijing Olympics related picture.