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Confirmed: Microsoft's New Search Engine Is Called 'Bing', Opens June 3rd [Microsoft]
Gizmodo —
... that Microsoft's new search engine, previously called Kumo, has been christened with the wonderfully onomatopoeic, possibly stupid name, "Bing". A peek into Ballmer's brain, via AllThingsD: ...
Steve Ballmer Quote-O-Rama [Microsoft]
Gizmodo —
... the original app wasn't designed for the PC," • I just think netbook is a funny brand … what is a netbook? Is it defined by its operating system, its memory, its screen size? They're really just PCs. I bet if you asked people if they planned to buy a portable computer you'd get a much better response. … It's a little hard to know what the heck the difference is between the netbook and the PC." • "Vista is faster than XP" A pretty mild talk, otherwise. [All Things D]
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Microsoft 'Bing': Live June 3.
I4U News —
... when we search, rather than Googling. Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer just had an interview with D7 , where he spilled the beans about the tech giant's plans for their new search engine, and how they plan to differentiate it from Google. When I first heard that Microsoft was planning to take on Google at its own game, I thought that they must have gone mad. But in the interview Ballmer seemed to be quite cogent of the difficult task ahead of him. "They have share, we don't have share." said Ballmer, referring to Google's 55.9% lead over Microsoft in search market share. But how ...
D7: Steve Ballmer Announces New Microsoft Search Engine "Bing"
Ubergizmo —
... There has been ongoing rumors last week regarding the Microsoft revamped search engine launch, internally code named Kumo. Today at D7, Steve Ballmer revealed its official name: Bing, joking that they should have named it "Boom"... Well, we still have to see if the performance measure up to such "enthusiastic" branding. Additionally a bunch of new Microsoft services are getting "Binged": Bing Travel, Bing Cashback and Bing Maps for Enterprise. According to Comscore's ...
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz to Steve Ballmer "Forget it, Won't help"
Ubergizmo —
... at D7 and when asked by Walt Mossberg about Yahoo he served the corporate answer: “I think there’s a lot that can make sense in terms of a search partnership, not an acquisition,”. Instead of a formal meeting with Steve Ballmer, Carol bartz preferred to leave him a note this morning on a purple Post-It in the D Program in the make-up room, just before his speech, knowing he would find it. the note read: "Steve, Forget it Won’t help, Ha, Carol". Carol Bartz ...
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