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
Dragonfly (search engine) Dragonfly (search engine) According to press reports, Dragonfly is an Internet search engine app being prototyped by Google that is designed to be compatible with China's state censorship provisions. Unlike a previous search engine designed by Google for use in China, Dragonfly would not notify users that results or search terms have been censored. The public learned of Dragonfly's existence in August 2018, when "The Intercept" leaked an internal memo written by a Google employee about the project. The search engine is reportedly designed to link users' phone numbers to their search queries and censor websites such as Wikipedia and