Bing Search Engine (MSN Local Search Engine)
The word "bing" is onomatopoeic. It typically represents a sound of arrival or conclusion, such as the sound made when an elevator arrives. Microsoft indicated that the name Bing "was memorable, short, easy to spell, and that would function well as a URL around the world" and reminded people of the sound made during "the moment of discovery and decision making.Qi Lu, president of Microsoft Online Services, also announced that Bing's official Chinese name is bì yìng (simplified Chinese: 必应; traditional Chinese: 必應), which literally means "very certain to respond" or "very certain to answer" in Chinese.
While being tested internally by Microsoft employees, Bing's codename was Kumo, which came from the Japanese word for spider as well as cloud, referring to the manner in which search engines "spider" Internet resources to add them to their database, as well as cloud computing.
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In addition to its tool for searching webpages, Bing also provides the following search off
Bing Health:
Bing Health refine health searches using related medical concepts to get relevant health information and allow users navigate complex medical topics with inline article results from experts.
Bing Images enables the user to quickly search and display most relevant photos and images of interest. The infinite scroll feature allows browsing a large number of images quickly. The advance filters allows refining search results in terms of properties such as image size, aspect ratio, color or black and white, photo or illustration, and facial features recognition.
Bing Local:
Bing Local searches local business listings with business details and reviews, allowing users to make more informed decisionsBing Maps:
Bing Maps enables the user to search for businesses, addresses, landmarks and street names worldwide, and can select from a road-map style view, a satellite view or a hybrid of the two. Also available are "bird's-eye" images for many cities worldwide, and 3D Maps which include virtual 3D navigation and to-scale terrain and 3D buildings. For Business users it will be available as "Bing Maps For Enterprise".
Bing News:
Bing News is a news aggregator and provides news results relevant to the search query from a wide range of online news and information services.
Bing Shopping:
Bing Shopping lets users search from a wide range of online suppliers and marketer's merchandise for all types of products and goods. This service also integrates with Bing cashback offering money back for certain purchases made through the site.
Bing Translator:
Bing Translator lets users translate texts or entire web pages into different languages.Bing Travel:
Bing Travel searches for airfare and hotel reservations online and predicts when is the best time to purchase them
Bing Video:
Bing Video enables the user to quickly search and view videos online from various websites. The Smart Preview feature allows the user to instantly watch a short preview of an original video.
Bing xRank:
Bing xRank lets users to search for celebrities, musicians, politicians and bloggers, read short biographies and news about them, and track their trends or popularity rankings.
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BingBing's debut will feature a $80 to $100 million online, TV, print, and radio advertising campaign. It was reported that the advertisements will not take on other competitive search engines such as Google and Yahoo! directly by name, however, they will instead attempt to convince users to switch to Bing by focusing on Bing's unique search features and functionalities.
BingBing's debut will feature a $80 to $100 million online, TV, print, and radio advertising campaign. It was reported that the advertisements will not take on other competitive search engines such as Google and Yahoo! directly by name, however, they will instead attempt to convince users to switch to Bing by focusing on Bing's unique search features and functionalities.
