After 2+ weeks of continuous search, social and web media coverage, the 2010 Winter Olympics have finally come to a close. It now time to put our individual Olympic dreams on ice for another 4 years and get back to business as usual.

 
That’s exactly what Bing is doing. Well, sort of…

 
Whether this was just a slight URL glitch, or an Ill Omen for Bing, only time will tell. However, they did a fantastic job on highlighting the Winter Olympic games by changing up their homepage with multiple different images over the past couple of weeks. This kept me highly interested and returning frequently to see the new photo and background on each.

 
Great Job Bing!

 
First Bing Winter Olympic Homepage on February 12th, 2010

 
Final Bing Winter Olympic Homepage on March 1st, 2010

 
Here is the official post from Bing: And now back to our regularly scheduled program…

 

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Tags: 2010, Bing, homepages, Olympic Games, Olympics

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