New search engine to compete with Google and Yahoo!
Bing (
www.bing.com),
codenamed
Kumo is the name of
Microsoft's
new web search engine, designed to compete with the industry leaders
Google and
Yahoo!. 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, and it went fully
online on June 1, 2009. Notable changes include the addition of
related searches (called "Explorer pane" on the left side of
search results), search suggestions as you type, and the ability to
keep track of your search history.
Source: Wikipedia
You can add Bing search to Mozilla Firefox by installing the
following add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/4610/addon-4610-latest.xml
Posted 2009-06-02 at 03:40:07
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