Bing’s search engine will let us go boldly where no man has gone before.
In conjunction with the arrival of “Star Trek Into Darkness”, Bing has added a couple of features that fans should appreciate: a home page Easter egg when you search for [beam me up] and a new language option to Bing Translator: Klingon.
After you search for “beam me up” on Bing’s home page, you’ll be taken to an interactive experience in space. You know, the final frontier.
You can click any of the hotspots, which include the Enterprise and planets. This will lead you to various “Star Trek” searches – everything from Tribbles and tractor beams, to James T. Kirk’s birthplace and the death of Redshirts, to Kobayashi Maru and bad “Star Trek” props.
Bing has also added Klingon as a Bing Translator language. So now you can translate text to Klingon (or an entire site). It is available here.
Here’s what Search Engine Watch looks like in Klingon:
Bing isn’t the only search engine that has paid tribute to “Star Trek”. In September, an interactive Google Doodle celebrated the 46th anniversary of the original “Star Trek” TV series.