Friday, June 5, 2009

Bing!

Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search and MSN Search), codenamed Kumo, is a web search engine and is currently the 2nd largest search engine on the web at 16%, after its competitor Google at (60%), according to the web analytics firm StatCounter and CNBC. Unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things D conference in San Diego, Bing is a replacement for Live Search; it went fully online on June 3, 2009.Notable changes include the addition of search suggestions as you type and related searches (called "Explorer pane" on the left side of search results), based on semantic technology from PowerSet which Microsoft purchased in 2008ing also includes the ability to Save & Share search histories via Windows Live SkyDrive, Facebook, and e-mail.