What is Bing?
Operated by Microsoft, Bing is the second largest search engine in the US, UK, and many other English speaking countries.
Bing was launched in 2009 as a replacement for Microsoft’s previous search engine, Live Search – which was launched in 2006.
As well as traditional web-search, Bing also offers a range of other features such as: image search, video search, news, and maps/navigation.
Bing is the default search engine for Microsoft’s Edge web browser, is available as a standalone website at Bing.com, and various mobile apps.
Bing is integrated into a variety of other Microsoft products, including the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office.
In 2021 Bing had a 7.2% global search engine market share according to Statista.com.
In 2023 Bing announced the launch of new AI-powered search service.