Bing goes live in multiple markets

Getting reports from all over that www.bing.com is live: The US is getting the Hubble telescope image that is on live.com, but for at least some other countries (we didn’t check them all), they’re ... Read more »

Join The Bing Webcast At June 1st @ 10am PT

If you want to watch instead of read about Bing, then join the Bing Webcast at June 1st. Here’s how to join in: 1) Set your alarm clocks for 10AM Pacific Daylight Time, Monday, ... Read more »

Our first look at Bing: 5 things that stand out

We haven’t been able to get our hands on Bing until today,  and we’ll have more as we dig deeper into it, but we wanted to give you some quick first impressions.  There’s lots ... Read more »

Some quick takes on Bing

Well the story we’ve been following for the past year, the rebranding of Live Search, reached a big milestone today with the announcement (finally) of the new name, Bing.  While the name itself has ... Read more »

The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

Steve Ballmer just announced Microsoft’s newest search offering on the D7 stage. He introduced it by showing a video, a Star Trek parody called “A bold search for a new name.” The video runs ... Read more »

Setting the (search) stage this week: New name, new version, new partnership?

This is a big week or so for Microsoft, and for Live Search.  According to reports from the Wall St. Journal, the widely anticipated new version of Live Search, code named Kumo, is set ... Read more »

Microsoft to show “Kumo” next week?

The Wall St. Journal is reporting today that Microsoft is expected to show for the first time publically its new search effort, code named Kumo, at “D: All Things Digital”.  The technology conference, hosted ... Read more »

Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock

A post on a Neowin forum crossed our path this weekend (thanks for the tip, CalumJR!): apparently the poster was hanging out at Bldg 88 (which does house parts of Live Search), and spotted ... Read more »

Twitter intrigue: Kumo “only the test name”: Live Search

Adding to the intrigue of what to call the falling further and further behind Microsoft search product, the Live Search team posted this tonight: Here’s the list of Live Search twitter accounts, for those ... Read more »

The curious case of Kumo: more than just a “test name”?

We first heard the term last summer.  Mary Jo Foley posted on some possible new names for Live Search, including Kumo, which has led us on quite a little goose chase over the past ... Read more »