Localised Bing background images arrives in Australia, Japan

Last week we reported that the full version of Bing will arrive in Australia, Canada, China, Japan and UK soon, today we see the beginning of this series of update. The Australian and Japanese version of Bing homepage had just been updated to have their own “localised” version of the homepage image, and these markets now have their own localised hotspot too! Have a look at the Australian homepage today:

Australian Bing homepage

Ironically, this very first highly “localised” Bing image for Australia features the New York-based Central Park.

However, do note that this is only the beginning of a series of changes and thus both markets still currently have the “beta” tag attached.  Expect more updates coming soon in the coming weeks and keep the buzz going around Bing!

You can also visit Long Zheng’s Bing Image Archive for all four variations of the Bing homepage background image for today.

Comments

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/Jamie/default.aspx Jamie

    Bing UK has one @ time of writing 00:28 UTC
    UK: Tower Bridge at Night with rollovers plus some Bing based ‘London Advertising’ for London 2012 and get Rail (train) ‘deals’ of Fares to London [domestic travel assumed]
    AUS: still that Central Park, NY (US) background & has rollovers. expecting something like Syndey Opera House or a landmark from the likes of Adelaide, Melbourne, Darwin or Brisbane
    CA-FR: a form of mis categorization in the top right ‘indicator’ “Canada English” when on the fr-ca site
    CA-EN “Canada(français)” in top right ‘indicator’ when the en-ca site.
    CA: Both CA sites have not added the rollovers feature at time of research
    JAP: Sea Turtle with ‘rollovers’
    US-ES no rollovers and still ‘beta’
    US-EN bing.com and explore section and rollovers
    CHI/PRC: as Japan (features) and background

    Only US-EN aka Bing.com default has the Explore feature while many markets are pretty much at the same non started stage as Canada e.g. France, Ireland and the rest

  • http://www.liveside.net/members/Khristopher/default.aspx Khristopher

    Canada has it now as of July 14. The image was of the Louvre in Paris.