Bing is web search engine owned by Microsoft. Bing provides a diverse search engine with web, images, videos and maps. It is developed using ASP.NET. It was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009. Microsoft made a deal with Yahoo in 2009, in which Bing would power Yahoo search. Bing is currently the third largest search engine globally with a volume of 4.85% behind Google 77%, and Baidu 14.45%, Yahoo has a percentage of 2.63% which is powered by Bing. Windows had originally launched Windows Live Search in March of 2006. Microsoft workers worked on the search engine continuously for the next few years creating new updates and algorithms. Finally in 2009, Microsoft renamed Live Search to Bing. Bing had total revenues for the fiscal year of $110.4 billion.
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