Bing is a web internet search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The solution has its beginnings in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing offers a range of search services, consisting of internet, video clip, image and also map search products. It is created utilizing ASP.NET.

Bing, Microsoft's replacement for Live Search, was introduced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the All Things Digital meeting in San Diego, California, for launch on June 3, 2009. Notable brand-new features at the time included the listing of search recommendations while questions are gotten in and also a list of associated searches (called "Explore pane") based upon semantic technology from Powerset, which Microsoft had actually gotten in 2008.

In July 2009, Microsoft as well as Yahoo! announced a sell which Bing would certainly power Yahoo! Look. All Yahoo! Browse international clients and also partners made the shift by very early 2012.= The deal was changed in 2015, implying Yahoo! was just needed to make use of Bing for a "majority" of searches.

In October 2011, Microsoft stated that they were dealing with new back-end search framework with the goal of providing faster and slightly a lot more relevant search results for customers. Called "Tiger", the brand-new index-serving technology had been incorporated right into Bing worldwide considering that August that year. In May 2012, Microsoft announced an additional redesign of its internet search engine that includes "Sidebar", a social feature that browses individuals' socials media for details pertinent to the search inquiry.

Since October 2018, Bing is the third largest search engine internationally, with an inquiry quantity of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) and Baidu (14.45%). Yahoo! Search, which Bing mostly powers, has 2.63%.