Bing is the new launc of search engine features from Microsoft rolled up into Bing.com. In preview for some time under the name Kumo, Bing has integrated a number of features including travel, local search, maps, health, and other results pages based around the structure of your query. Microsoft of calling it a decision engine and has a video to explain it.

You can clearly see the integration of many services such as Powerset, and the pay to search functions that are features of the previous live.com search service, now rolled up together.

Being announced at the All Things Digital Conference by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft is hailing Bing as The Sound of Found. While I have not had a chance to try out Bing myself, I have been following Kumo for some time.

I also see that if this is to be successful that typical phrases such as “bing it” would have to become a colloquialism just as “Google it” has today.

Until I have had a chance to dive into this new search effort I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

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Just Bing It

From the release:

Ben Carlson, Chief Strategy Officer of BaM, explains the thinking behind the campaign, “Almost everything you’ve experienced on the World Wide Web in the past 15 years or so has been seen through Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

I hope Internet Explorer 8 does not mean a bookend for Microsoft and the browser wars. Now that people are switching to Google Chrome and Firefox in droves I think the window in which people view the Internet is slowly changing.

I only use Internet explorer now for antiquated systems that refuse support for new browsers. Without naming names I can say that I use IE for a major bank, a major piece of enterprise software, and an email provider – all do not work on FF and definitely do not work on Chrome or other browsers.

I think continued upgrades and new releases are great for consumers (albeit difficult for developers) and new browsers create further innovation. Ultimately, consumers will win out, but standards must continue to be met.

There are even campaigns to try to end the usage of IE 6 as I found here and as the date says (March 2009) that time is now.

I will keep moving between Firefox, Internet Explorer 8, and Google Chrome for the time being – but I hope to report back soon on the changeover to only one browser choice.

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