Bing is a web internet search engine owned as well as run by Microsoft. The solution has its origins in Microsoft's previous internet search engine: MSN Search, Windows Live Search as well as later Live Search. Bing provides a selection of search solutions, including web, video, image and map search products. It is developed utilizing ASP.NET.

Bing, Microsoft's substitute for Live Search, was introduced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009, at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, California, for release on June 3, 2009. Notable brand-new features at the time consisted of the listing of search pointers while queries are entered and also a listing of associated searches (called "Explore pane") based on semantic technology from Powerset, which Microsoft had obtained in 2008.

In July 2009, Microsoft and also Yahoo! announced a sell which Bing would certainly power Yahoo! Browse. All Yahoo! Look international consumers and partners made the transition by early 2012.= The bargain was changed in 2015, implying Yahoo! was only required to use Bing for a "bulk" of searches.

In October 2011, Microsoft mentioned that they were servicing brand-new back-end search framework with the goal of providing faster and slightly more relevant search results for individuals. Called "Tiger", the brand-new index-serving technology had actually been integrated right into Bing around the world given that August that year. In May 2012, Microsoft announced another redesign of its internet search engine that includes "Sidebar", a social function that searches customers' social networks for info appropriate to the search question.

Since October 2018, Bing is the 3rd largest online search engine worldwide, with a query volume of 4.58%, behind Google (77%) and Baidu (14.45%). Yahoo! Search, which Bing mainly powers, has 2.63%.