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
Search engine privacy legal framework for privacy protections in terms of search engines has been put in place. However, scholars do write about the implications of existing laws on privacy in general to inform what right to privacy search engine users have. As this is a developing field of law, there have been several lawsuits with respect to the privacy search engines are expected to afford to their users. The Fourth Amendment is well known for the protections it offers citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures, but in "Katz v. United States" (1967), these protections were extended to cover intrusions of privacy of