Microsoft Bing Is Now Live
Microsoft is going to show off Bing, a new version of its Internet search engine (previously Kumo) publicly for the first time on June 3. But it came earlier, the Bing website is now live. Check it out.
Microsoft has rebranded its Windows Live Search to Kumo in early 2009. But now Microsoft have changed the name to Bing. It will use semantic search technology from Powerset which Microsoft have acquired to display refined searches. Microsoft is set to launch an $80 million to $100 million campaign for Bing.
Microsoft has recently announced Windows Live with its “next generation unified experience” features by adding a set of new social networking tools and services to its cloud-based software suite.
Checkout Wired review of Bing: There’s a glimmer of something better than a search engine here — call it an information portal. Bing’s not there yet, but it is pointing the way.
on June 3rd, 2009 at 11:13 pm
i like the look of Microsoft’s search page, always have, just not so sure about the back-end functionality