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Microsoft Officially Plans to Take on Google With "Bing" Search

Posted 05/29/09 at 06:00:34 PM by Andy Salisbury

Yesterday Microsoft officially announced their brand new search engine, Bing.

Bing, which will be come available over the next few days, is the product of the Kumo project (which remains the internal codename). What Microsoft hopes will set Bing apart is its completely reworked algorithms. Each search page will be customized based on what you search (health, travel, shopping, news, sports). The algorithms will not only determine the order of results on the page, but the layout as well. Each section on display can include guided refinements or a list of related searches.

To see more of Bing before its official release, be sure to check out screenshots here, at TechCrunch.

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Bing as in Crosby?
Submitted by DrMD on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 3:32pm

They left the "l" out which would have been way better, might as well have named it "White Christmas".

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Bing
Submitted by JackofSomeTrades on Sun, 05/31/2009 - 11:27am

One word,

"Phil?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xwCy_ai_E0

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Well when google started I
Submitted by MRrelabled on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 12:51pm

Well when google started I thought the name wasn't very good, actually I still do. It's not the name actually Live I thought was good. Bing ? No that's worst that google. But really it's not the name, actually google has broken from what I first started using it for, a search engine that would find what I'm searching for not Only !! not a bunch of junk. Even with filters, and quotes it doesn't find a page.

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Just another.........
Submitted by ghot on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 8:28am

....soon to be MS...Fail !

Take an OS, and edit out all the efficiency, and what you have left is a post-XP Microsoft operating system :)

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I like it. Will it bring
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:07pm

I like it. Will it bring back detailed data during searches for um, uh, adult entertainment websites and materials?

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It will fail solely because of its lame name
Submitted by DOOMHAMMA on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 9:45pm

Kumo was so much cooler. It has already failed because the name is so terrible. I would have liked Kumo. Idiots.

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and Weird Als new song will
Submitted by comptech08 on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 9:28pm

and Weird Als new song will be, "Just Bing It"

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new name is terrible
Submitted by zeringue on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 7:55pm

Bing...what were they thinking. Does not seem like something i would say in normal conversation. Hey did you google er Bing it? So i guess at the bottom of the search offerings it will be BIIIIIIIIIIIIING. perhaps not, just BING. Its a shame that such a massive company as MS can not compete with google.

Good luck, i will try it at least for giggles...

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Who knows really, look at
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 11:12pm

Who knows really, look at google, that name google isn't exactly a normal name. It's really subjective and easy and that is what counts. That it's easy to remember like Google.com, Yahoo.com and ask.com were. Bing is easy and fast. They had to shorten ask down because it used to be askjeeves.com. Nobody wants to type in a long name when they are just doing a web search. I want something short like ask.com or google.com or Bing.com.

Not to bad of a name really. It could be worse. Could be bang.com or bong.com so it's a good name after all for what it is anyway.;

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Bing?
Submitted by ONaE on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 6:37pm

...And coincidentally(?) today's urbandictionary.com's word-of-the-day is Bing <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bing&defid=820437">Bing</a> and is defined as jail/prison *Rattles aluminum cup against bars*

◘•↑OfNeutrals↨♠and♠↨Extremes↓•◘

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Bing?! WTF!!!
Submitted by Stry8993 on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 5:46pm

Go back to Kumo, please, for the love of god! Bing... and I 'bing' in my pants.

Oh, look what I just binged (to your girlfriend who ALREADY suspects you of cheating because she's crazy)

Wow, that is quite the bing...

NO!!!! KUMO! Please, PLEASE CHANGE THE NAME!

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Chrome for life!
Submitted by JDK on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 4:36pm

This just tells me that now Google will be more apt to continue development on Chrome.

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Bing it!..doesn't sound as
Submitted by DBsantos77 on Fri, 05/29/2009 - 4:32pm

Bing it!..doesn't sound as good as I thought it would...

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