On May 15, 2009, Live Product Upload, a service which allowed merchants to upload products information onto Live Search Products, was discontinued. Live Search Macros, a service for users to create their own custom search engines or use macros created by other users, was also discontinued shortly after. Soon after, Windows Live Expo was discontinued on July 31, 2008. On May 23, 2008, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of Live Search Books and Live Search Academic and integrated all academic and book search results into regular search, and as a result this also included the closure of Live Search Books Publisher Program. Ī series of reorganizations and consolidations of Microsoft's search offerings were made under the Live Search branding.
As part of this change, Live Search was merged with Microsoft adCenter. Live Search was integrated into the Live Search and Ad Platform headed by Satya Nadella, part of Microsoft's Platform and Systems division. On March 21, 2007, Microsoft announced that it would separate its search developments from the Windows Live services family, rebranding the service as Live Search. Live Search homepage, which would help to create the Bing homepage later on Yahoo! Search, which Bing largely powers, has 2.63%. Īs of October 2018, (Microsoft) Bing is the third largest search engine globally, with a query volume of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) and Baidu (14.45%). The BitFunnel search engine indexing algorithm and various components of the search engine were made open source by Microsoft in 2016. In May 2012, Microsoft announced another redesign of its search engine that includes "Sidebar", a social feature that searches users' social networks for information relevant to the search query. Known as "Tiger", the new index-serving technology had been incorporated into Bing globally since August that year.
In October 2011, Microsoft stated that they were working on new back-end search infrastructure with the goal of delivering faster and slightly more relevant search results for users.
In July 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search. Notable new features at the time included the listing of search suggestions while queries are entered and a list of related searches (called "Explore pane") based on semantic technology from Powerset, which Microsoft had acquired in 2008. It is developed using ASP.NET.īing, Microsoft's replacement for Live Search, was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, California, for release on June 3, 2009. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. The service has its origins in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Microsoft Bing (commonly known as Bing) is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft.
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