Bing – how to disable the background image (and other Bing stuff)

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

.NET

Love Bing but the background image takes too much bandwidth when you connect with a remote machine? You can disable it by clicking on the Help link at the bottom of the Bing pages.

You can then set the background image on and off.

You can also use this hyperlink: http://www.bing.com/?rb=0

The Bing image archive is available here: http://www.istartedsomething.com/bingimages/

Here’s a video tour of Bing features:
http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html

Laurent Duveau has a great post listing Bing cool features:
http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2009/06/01/bing-com-new-decision-engine-by-microsoft.aspx

5 Comments

We cannot turn off the background image via the help option on the UK version of Bing.

Thankfully the URL part of your example does the trick.

Lee Friend - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 2:37:38 PM

I want to turn off the hover panel which appears on the right of search results. It is driving me loco.

valamas - Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:20:36 AM

Thanks.

I wonder why they didn't put that setting under Extras, Preferences where it belongs.

SGWellens - Thursday, June 18, 2009 1:18:50 AM

I want to get rid of Bing automatic search. I want Google back after entering a search subject in the URL.

GV - Wednesday, December 9, 2009 4:03:22 PM

How can I disable bing automatic search????

Ed - Friday, January 22, 2010 10:51:09 PM

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