Neowin News Feed for: Kumo

Microsoft week-in review, May 30 to June 6

Sean Bradford — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:44:19 +0000

For the longest time we've had requests for a week-in review of the hottest news rolling out of the various sectors we report on here at Neowin. Today we're glad to announce that starting this... Read more...

Will Bing make a ding?

Andrew Fairbairn — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:13:38 +0000

Since Microsoft officially announced their new search engine Bing on Thursday it seems to have impressed many critics and is showing definite improvements over its predecessor Live Search. But does Bing have what it takes... Read more...

Microsoft officially launches new search at Bing.com

Andrew Fairbairn — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:39:43 +0000

After several months in the planning, Microsoft has finally taken the covers off its new web search engine, Bing. Set to go live in under a week, Bing is not just a re branding of... Read more...

Microsoft drops Kumo, rebrands to Bing

Andrew Lyle — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:35:30 +0000

Microsoft has officially dropped the codename "Kumo" from its rebranding of its Live Search to help compete against search engine giant Google, by giving Live Search a new name. The newest name will be... Read more...

Screenshots: Live Search 'Kumo Lite' refresh

Tue, 19 May 2009 04:40:38 +0000

If you use Live search, you are no doubt well used to the daily background changes that the search engine goes through. Today, a little more than the background changed. Without so much as a... Read more...

Microsoft publicly testing codename "Kumo"

Sean Bradford — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:06:23 +0000

A few weeks ago one of our readers spotted a countdown to "Kumo" at one of Microsoft's campuses in Redmond. From what we've gathered, Microsoft could be preparing to launch a public beta of codename... Read more...

Microsoft preparing to launch Kumo on June 2nd?

Sean Bradford — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:54:22 +0000

Remember all of the buzz a few months ago regarding Microsoft's upcoming release of its rebranded online search engine dubbed "Kumo"? It appears as if Microsoft is finally going to be showing the world what... Read more...

Refreshing Kumo.com home page

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:56:07 +0000

Earlier this month Kumo was released internally to Microsoft employees for testing and also several screenshots of Kumo.com surfaced over the net. LiveSide has got it hands on the new Kumo.com home page which looks... Read more...

Microsoft still wants to strike a deal with Yahoo!

Sean Bradford — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:35:01 +0000

Remember over a year ago when Microsoft made a $47.5 billion dollar offer to acquire Yahoo!, the second biggest search engine in the United States? Former CEO Jerry Yang rejected the deal which ultimately led... Read more...

First screenshot of Microsoft's Kumo emerges

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:59:17 +0000

We've known for awhile now that Live Search was going to be rebranded and receive a major update to the search engine. CNET news has come up with the first screenshot of Kumo (code name... Read more...