Bing is an internet online search engine possessed as well as operated by Microsoft. The solution has its beginnings in Microsoft's previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search as well as later on Live Search. Bing offers a variety of search solutions, including internet, video clip, picture and map search items. It is established utilizing ASP.NET.

Bing, Microsoft's substitute for Live Search, was revealed 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. Significant new attributes at the time consisted of the listing of search pointers while inquiries are gotten in and also a listing of related searches (called "Explore pane") based on semantic modern technology from Powerset, which Microsoft had obtained in 2008.

In July 2009, Microsoft and also Yahoo! introduced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search. All Yahoo! Look worldwide customers and companions made the change by very early 2012.= The deal was modified in 2015, indicating Yahoo! was just needed to utilize Bing for a "majority" of searches.

In October 2011, Microsoft specified that they were dealing with new back-end search infrastructure with the objective of supplying faster and also somewhat a lot more relevant search results for customers. Called "Tiger", the brand-new index-serving technology had been incorporated right into Bing internationally given that August that year. In May 2012, Microsoft introduced an additional redesign of its online search engine that consists of "Sidebar", a social attribute that looks users' socials media for details pertinent to the search inquiry.

Since October 2018, Bing is the third largest internet search engine internationally, with a question volume of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) and also Baidu (14.45%). Yahoo! Browse, which Bing largely powers, has 2.63%.