Bing is an internet online search engine had and run by Microsoft. The service has its beginnings in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search as well as later Live Search. Bing offers a selection of search solutions, consisting of web, video clip, photo and map search products. It is established making use of ASP.NET.

Bing, Microsoft's replacement for Live Search, was introduced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the All Things Digital meeting in San Diego, California, for release on June 3, 2009. Remarkable brand-new functions at the time included the listing of search tips while inquiries are gone into as well as a list of related searches (called "Explore pane") based upon semantic modern technology from Powerset, which Microsoft had actually gotten in 2008.

In July 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! introduced a sell which Bing would certainly power Yahoo! Browse. All Yahoo! Look international consumers and also companions made the change by early 2012.= The bargain was altered in 2015, indicating Yahoo! was just needed to utilize Bing for a "bulk" of searches.

In October 2011, Microsoft mentioned that they were working on new back-end search infrastructure with the goal of providing faster and somewhat a lot more pertinent search results page for individuals. Called "Tiger", the new index-serving technology had been incorporated right into Bing internationally given that August that year. In May 2012, Microsoft introduced one more redesign of its internet search engine that includes "Sidebar", a social function that browses users' social media networks for information appropriate to the search inquiry.

Since October 2018, Bing is the third biggest internet search engine around the world, with a query volume of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) as well as Baidu (14.45%). Yahoo! Browse, which Bing mostly powers, has 2.63%.