Bing is an internet search engine possessed and also run by Microsoft. The solution has its beginnings in Microsoft's previous internet search engine: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later on Live Search. Bing supplies a selection of search services, including web, video clip, photo and also map search products. It is created using ASP.NET.

Bing, Microsoft's substitute for Live Search, was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the All Things Digital seminar in San Diego, California, for release on June 3, 2009. Remarkable new functions at the time consisted of the listing of search ideas while inquiries are gotten in as well as a listing of relevant searches (called "Explore pane") based upon semantic innovation from Powerset, which Microsoft had acquired in 2008.

In July 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! introduced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search. All Yahoo! Browse global clients and partners made the shift by early 2012.= The bargain was altered in 2015, meaning Yahoo! was just needed to make use of Bing for a "majority" of searches.

In October 2011, Microsoft specified that they were servicing brand-new back-end search infrastructure with the goal of supplying faster and also slightly a lot more pertinent search engine result for users. Called "Tiger", the brand-new index-serving innovation had been included into Bing worldwide since August that year. In May 2012, Microsoft announced an additional redesign of its online search engine that includes "Sidebar", a social attribute that searches users' social networks for info pertinent to the search inquiry.

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