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Bing (known previously as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine"[1]) from Microsoft.

Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego for release on June 1.[2] Notable changes include the listing of search suggestions while queries are entered and a list of related searches (called "Explore pane") based on[3] semantic technology from Powerset which Microsoft purchased in 2008.[4]

On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search.[5] All Yahoo! Search global customers and partners are expected to have made the transition by early 2012.[6]

In October 2011, Bing announced it was working on new back-end search infrastructure, with the goal of delivering faster and slightly more relevant search results for users. Known as "Tiger", the new index-serving technology has been incorporated into Bing globally, since August 2011.[7] In May 2012, Bing announced another redesign of its search engine that includes "Sidebar", a social feature that searches users' social networks for information relevant to the search query.[8]