Microsoft hopes the HTML5 features will encourage users to download Internet Explorer 9, but you can also see them in the latest versions of Safari, Firefox, Chrome and other browsers. The doodle is only available in the US today, but us limeys will beĪble to see them in the next few months. Shiny animations to move back through your search history and hovering preview thumbnails. Recent animated doodles include a kid's mobile, a rock-tastic 8-bit video of Freddie Mercury and a guitar you can actually play, all powered by HTML5.įurther HTML5 features are also in the pipeline for Bing, including Google regularly posts special images or animations to liven up its logo on the search home page, known as Google doodles and usually themed to celebrate a famous person born on that day. Microsoft says there won't be a Bing doodle every day, 'just when the mood strikes us'.

The moving images add a dash of variety to Bing's home page when you head over there to search for something, by presenting you with a different image on an interesting theme. Microsoft's rival to the Google search engine now has HTML5-powered moving images on its home page.

Google doodle now