Microsoft Introduces New Search Engine Called Bing

by Thorsten Finck on: 06/02/2009 07:30 AM | source: | 0 comment(s)

Rumored for quite some time already, Microsoft presented its new search engine "Bing" today which replaced their existing offering, Live Search. Besides an improved indexing algorithm, Microsoft promises that Bing is a lot more user friendly and also integrates the shopping portal Ciao which they acquired last year for $486m.

You have several search categories to choose from when you visit Bing. Among others, some of them are: images, videos, shopping, news, etc.. A daily changing background image is supposed to make it more visually appealing. The first impression seems solid, but whether Microsoft can finally compete with Google remains to be seen.

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