SEARCH:BING

Bing is a search engine created and operated by Microsoft, replacing its former Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search offerings. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed the search engine in May 2009. Bing was fully operational in June 2009. To do this, Bing automatically crawls the web to build an index of new and updated pages (or URLs) to display as a set of search results relevant to a user-initiated search or action. Yet in a market dominated by Google, Bing is still the second most popular search engine worldwide. And it’s increasingly used in Microsoft products like Cortana. Overall, Microsoft’s search business is growing.