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.
