I like the Bing Homepage with the colorful pictures that change everyday, but do not like the news feed at bottom.
Use the instructions at the following link to display a plain bing home page.
http://www.blogsdna.com/4231/how-to-disable-turn-off-bing-home-page-image.htm
Or use the shortcut http://www.bing.com/?rb=0
Then if you want the to still see the pretty pictures on your desktop use Bing Desktop and customize the preferences:
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