In October , Microsoft stated that they were working on new back-end search infrastructure with the goal of delivering faster and slightly more relevant search results for users. Known as "Tiger", the new index-serving technology had been incorporated into Bing globally since August that year. In May , Microsoft announced another redesign of its search engine that includes "Sidebar", a social feature that searches users' social networks for information relevant to the search query.
The BitFunnel search engine indexing algorithm and various components of the search engine were made open source by Microsoft in As of October , Bing is the third largest search engine globally, with a query volume of 4.
Search, which Bing largely powers, has 2. Bing Desktop is essentially a toolbar, though it's no bigger or more obtrusive than the typical minimized media player. It's nicely rendered in blue tones, with search field and "Info" and "Settings" buttons above a row of icons accessing weather, top news stories, Facebook, and more. A flame icon marked the hot Trending feed, which summarizes the latest news, gossip, videos, and more in a scrolling picture panel.
It'd be cool if we could filter out stuff we didn't want to see, such as celebrity gossip, but that's a quibble, not a gripe since you can easily "filter" anything you're not interested in by scrolling past it.
Clicking results opened them in Bing in our default browser not IE. Search results were returned quickly and turned up the info. Bing's a good tool, although experiences with persistent desktop toolbars left us leery of trying Bing Desktop, and it didn't exactly go quietly, either, taking two passes and a leftover scan to uninstall.
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