Bing (search engine) Bing (search engine) Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. It is developed using ASP.NET. Bing, Microsoft's replacement for Live Search, was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the "All Things Digital" conference in San Diego, California, for release on June 1, 2009. Notable new features at the time included the listing of search suggestions while queries
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