Contact Admin. Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft's previous search engines: Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. It is developed using ASP. In July , Microsoft and Yahoo! Search global customers and partners made the transition by early In October , 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.
Known as "Tiger", the new index-serving technology had been incorporated into Bing globally since August that year. Search , which Bing largely powers, has 2. Microsoft originally launched MSN Search in the third quarter of , using search results from Inktomi. It consisted of a search engine, index, and web crawler. In early , MSN Search launched a version which displayed listings from Looksmart blended with results from Inktomi except for a short time in when results from AltaVista were used instead.
Microsoft decided to make a large investment in web search by building its own web crawler for MSN Search, the index of which was updated weekly and sometimes daily. The upgrade started as a beta program in November , and came out of beta in February Search rolled out its own crawler too.
Image search was powered by a third party, Picsearch. The service also started providing its search results to other search engine portals in an effort to better compete in the market. The new search engine used search tabs that include Web, news, images, music, desktop, local, and Microsoft Encarta.
In the roll-over from MSN Search to Windows Live Search, Microsoft stopped using Picsearch as their image search provider and started performing their own image search, fueled by their own internal image search algorithms.
