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Bing
Bing
The Bing homepage features an image or video that changes daily.
URL http://www.bing.com [1]Slogan Bing and decide
Commercial? Yes
Type of site Web search engine
Registration Optional
Available language(s) 40 languages
Owner Microsoft
Created by Microsoft
Launched June 3, 2009
Alexa rank 26 (March 2012)[2]Current status ActiveBing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a
"decision engine"[3]) from Microsoft. Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the
All Things Digital conference in San Diego. It went fully online on June 3, 2009,[4] with a preview version released
on June 1, 2009.
Notable changes include the listing of search suggestions as queries are entered and a list of related searches (called
"Explore pane") based on[5] semantic technology from Powerset that Microsoft purchased in 2008.[6]
On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search.[7] All
Yahoo! Search global customers and partners are expected to have made the transition by early 2012.[8]
In October 2011, Bing announced it is working on new back-end search infrastructure, with the goal of delivering
faster and slightly more relevant search results for users. Known as “Tiger,” the new index-serving technology has
being incorporated into Bing globally, since August 2011.[9]History
MSN Search
MSN Search was a search engine by Microsoft that consisted of a search engine, index, and web crawler. MSN
Search first launched in the third quarter of 1998 and used search results from Inktomi. In early 1999, MSN Search
launched a version which displayed listings from Looksmart blended with results from Inktomi except for a short
time in 1999 when results from AltaVista were used instead. Since then Microsoft upgraded MSN Search to provide
its own self-built search engine results, the index of which was updated weekly and sometimes daily. The upgrade
started as a beta program in November 2004, and came out of beta in February 2005. Image search was powered by a