NEWS: KUMO - LIVE SEARCH’ SUCCESSOR?
March 3rd, 2009
At the end of this week Microsoft will start internal tests of its new search engine, that will replace Live Search. In the long run Microsft is going to resign from Live Search brand completetly and create new engine and new brand at the same time.
The news was published by Barney Pell, one of Microcorp evangelists and formerly one of the authors of Powerset search engine. The rumour was buzzed at Twitter and than Microsoft confirmed that they work on creating new engine, although no ballpark date was given.
Microsoft bought domain kumo.com and redirects its internatl traffic to it. Kumo is a Japan word meaning “cloud” or “spider”, could it be that data gathered in web clouds also is going to indexed?
-mw
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