Bing (search engine) web crawler. In early 1999, MSN Search launched a version which displayed listings from Looksmart blended with results from Inktomi except for a short time in 1999 when results from AltaVista were used instead. Since then Microsoft upgraded MSN Search to provide its own self-built search engine results, the index of which was updated weekly and sometimes daily. The upgrade started as a beta program in November 2004, and came out of beta in February 2005. Image search was powered by a third party, Picsearch. The service also started providing its search results to other search engine portals in an
Chomp (search engine) app. Chomp acquired over 300,000 users in the first eight weeks after its launch. Chomp received seed funding of $565,000 in November 2009. By March 2010 it received a series A round of funding, of $2 Million. Investors included BlueRun Ventures, Ron Conway, Brian Pokorny, and David Lee. At this time, Chomp made further improvements to its search engine by enhancing its search functionality. By February 2011 Chomp brought its search to the Android platform and released its Android app. This provided an improved experience from the existing search capabilities found in the Android market. By May 2011, the number