Kumo.  It seemed like sort of a dumb name anyway.  Now it looks like Microsoft’s latest effort to dethrone Google will not be called Kumo, but will be called Bing instead.
It’s expected that Microsoft will announce the move at the D conference, which starts today out in California.
They may have already given us a sneak [...]

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Microsoft’s new Kumo engine is coming, probably as early as next week.
Sources are indicating that the company will demonstrate it at the D: All Things Digital conference next week.
Dubbed “Kumo”, the new search engine is Microsoft’s attempt to gain back some of the market share it has lost to Google. This is something that Microsoft [...]

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Live Search is getting ready to change its name some time this spring, and this has just been confirmed via Twitter.
We know that Microsoft snatched up the Kumo.com domain name last November.  “Kumo”, by the way, is the Japanese word for “cloud” (or spider, depending upon your translation).
Today, a Microsoft rep perhaps became a bit [...]

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