Bingery

In the world of chrome, you often get a natty little graphic of the day worked into the word 'google'. Perhaps making it to this window is a much coveted prize for starving but ambitious young graphic artists.

While in the world of bing, which I am getting to know on my elitebook (see reference 1), you get a picture of the day, usually something very arty & striking. The same sort of thing as might otherwise appear in the Guardian centrefold. Perhaps a much coveted prize for starving but ambitious young photographers.

But while the Guardian tells you where the picture comes from, I have not yet found any captions in bing. Furthermore, bing does not seem to be as helpful about the provenance of the pictures that it finds for you as google - but maybe all this is more to do with my learning curve than any real difference.

A more irritating difference is the amount of flickering advertising that you get from the stuff which bing turns up. All kinds of stuff hung around the outsides of the modest amount of content in the centre of the screen. What they call news seems to be particularly bad in this regard; for all the world like reading the Sun or something like that.

PS: interesting that the picture does not seem to be as striking when enlarged in the blog post as it is for real. I suppose it must have been damaged by what must be the several layers of compression and decompression between first display and blog display.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/a-new-departure.html.