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Bing new mega-data centers in Chicago and in Dublin (Ireland)

In order to provide faster access to Microsoft services, including Cloud, Live, Online, and Bing, the software giant is on pace to open two mega-data centers during the next few weeks.  The first datacenter is located in Chicago.  This data center is almost equal to the size of 16 American football fields, or 700,000 square feet (65,000 square meters).  It has a total power of almost 60 mega watts, with initial phase using 30 mega watts.

The second datacenter is located in Dublin (Ireland).  This data center will help European users to access Microsoft services faster.  This will take 303,000 square feet of space (28,000 square meters).  It required about 5.4 mega watts of power.

According to Microsoft datacenters blog:

“Two-thirds of the Chicago data center is optimized for housing containerized servers…”

“…These prepackaged units (with up to 1,800 to 2,500 servers each) can be wheeled into the facility and made operational within hours…”

(photo: Microsoft)

Bing yellow cab advertising in New York City

As web traffics around the world have been skyrocketing since the passing of the King of Pop Michael Jackson last week.  Big American corporations, including NBC (GE) and Bing (Microsoft), have jointly placed ads on New York City taxi. 

As reported by Wall Street Journal’s allthingsd.com, the ad was placed on top of a yellow cab in New York City, with a picture from Michael Jackson’s 1984 “Thriller” album, and a short message reads: “We will miss you Michael.”  This type ad was produced by a taxi-topper specialist Show Media.

(photo: All Things Digital)

Bing performance: comparing 3-weeks before the launch to first 3-weeks after the launch

As reported by the Search Agents blog, the first three weeks after the launch of Bing have generated better results than its initial expectation.   The analysis compared all of the Search Agency’s clients which have already utilized pay-per-click searches, by comparing three weeks before the launch (using Live Search data) to first three weeks after the launch (using Bing data).

The results found from the Search Agency's analysis:

1. Click Through Rate (CTR) up 15%
2. Conversions up 6%
3. Conversion rate up 18%
4. Cost per Acquisition (CPA) down 3%

Bing cloud computing

At the Structure 09 Conference world championship ring, two world caliber engineers were taking a few jabs at each other, as reported by theregister.co.uk. The two were at Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco, CA, on June 25:
(1) Vijay Gill, Senior Manager, Engineering and Architecture, Google [Google guy]
(2) Najam Ahmad, General Manager, Global Networking Services, Microsoft [Softie]

The Google guy questioned the Softie’s approach to online infrastructure performance. The Google guy believed his company has already practiced and applied all fundamental cloud computing implementation than the Softie’s company has done.  The Google guy indicated that Softie’s new decision engine, Bing, may need to work harder on its online infrastructure before Bing can capture search market share from Google search engine.

The Softie returned several softer salvos to the Google guy too.  Softie believed his company has so many set of applications on its network already.  Softie company can't actually practice and apply one single solution that really works for all apps, for example, Softie’s IM services demand higher bandwidth than other apps.  The Softie reiterated that his company has utilized a mixture of solutions to solve its online infrastructure performance, especially for specific applications and types of applications (incl. Bing Maps).

Bing summer photo contest (June 29 to July 16)

As reported by several studies, many users who conduct searches on Bing love to see its homepage image which changes on a daily basis. Bing is now partnering with Facebook to offer a chance for its users to participate in a photo contest with a theme dubbed as "Summer Travel."

Here is the schedule and few rules:

• The first day for submissions is on June 29, and it will close on July 16.  The contest winner will be announced on July 27, and the winning photograph will be featured as the homepage image on Bing for 24 hours.

• Bing summer photo contest guidelines including photos must have a minimum of 970px width and 528px height, with resolution at least 1MB.

Bing’s logo

Although it has been almost one month since the launch of Bing, I believed this is an interesting post regarding Bing’s logo.  It was found at Margarit Ralev blog site.  As Ralev wrote:

 “…Blue seems to be a nice color choice. A classic blue + orange should work well…”

“…here we have only small ones. This is a feature of the new style in logotypes.  More friendly, more humble, more like a nickname…”

Bing paid search click-through rates (CTR)

Within the past four weeks after launch, many online marketing gurus and SEO experts believe Bing continues to show evidences of capturing paid search market share.  As a new study by Didit.com, a search marketing firm in New York, found many Bing users also clicked on pay-per-click ads.  This type of findings will bring more online marketers to switch to Bing paid search properties, and this will generate more revenue for Bing’s parent company, Microsoft.

Using a two-year data by comparing May-June 2008 to 2009 click-through rates for all Didit clients, as reported by businessinsider.com, the firm said that this year’s Microsoft paid search properties (Bing, MSN) click-through rates increased over 170% than last year’s paid search properties (Live Search, MSN).

(chart: didit.com & businessinsider.com)

Bing’s looks and feels research findings

Using a small sample of 12 people in a focus group, a study to compare Bing vs. Google on several categories was conducted by Catalyst Group, a research and design company based in New York City.  The study applied a new technique of eye-tracking cameras as the focus group conducted searches on both Bing and Google website.

The focus group of 12 people has already used Google to search online prior to the study.  As reported by techcrunch.com, the research findings of the Catalyst Group show that 4 out of the 12 people (or, ratio 1:3, 33%) would like to switch to Bing.  The other 8 would keep their loyalty to continue using Google because they’ve already known how to conduct searches on Google.

 

(chart: Catalyst Group)

Bing’s Politics

In order to please its largest Internet users in the planet (300 million users), Bing is cleaning up some sensitive political contents against the Chinese government, such as searches for word of “Tiananmen,” “Falun Gong,” etc.  As reported by pcworld.com, “the filtering appeared to occur for searches done both in and outside of China…”

Bing PageRank 9, a very close to perfect PR 10

The world PageRank (PR) authority, Google, has just increased Bing PageRank from PR 2 to PR 9.  Since its launch early June, Bing PR was 2, as of Wednesday (June 24), Bing has been upgraded to PR 9 (see print screen).

Google PR tool is globally used by SEOs experts to determine if a website is considered as success or fail in link building.  Most websites would only get as high as PR 9.  The perfect PR 10 is reserved for the world PR authority itself, Google.com. 

This appears to be another piece of good news for the Bing team to see their latest success with their decision engine which moves closer to Google in term of PR.

(1) Bing PageRank 2 (June 1 to June 23)

(2) Bing PageRank 9 (June 24 to present) 

25% of American adults now recognize what “Bing” is (it’s a big size cherry or a decision engine)

As schools are on break, many Americans are taking the summer vacation which started a couple of weeks ago.  In the same time, many have gone to local farms or took a trip to summer fruits picking season, and consuming many varieties of summer fruits including bing cherries.  This would be a very helpful insight for Americans to learn the word "Bing" at a local farm and what “Bing” is doing in Internet space.

According to YouGov's BrandIndex as reported by businessinsider.com, only about 8% of American consumers had known of Bing’s brand on June 8.  But, now, as of this Monday (June 23), 25% of American adults have heard of Bing.  This is a very impressive data for the Bing team.  While, after the launch of Bing, only about 52% to 57% recognize Google's brand. 

YouGov's BrandIndex data is based on interviewing 5,000 people on a 5-business-days basis.

Bing ad campaigns (incl. pay-per-click, TV ads, and online video) started in the last week of May '09 by JWT ad agency which has a HQ in New York.  The total amount has been estimated to be worth about $100 million.

(chart: YouGov's BrandIndex & businessinsider.com)

Bing’s share of pay-per-clicks ads continues to go up

Using a baseline of 1.00 and comparing data from one week before the launch of Bing, Efficient Frontier data shows Bing’s share of pay-per-clicks ads (or, sponsored links) has an increase of 13% after two weeks launch.  Compared to one week after launch, Bing’s share of pay-per-clicks ads also increased about 8%. 

Given the number of clicks on ads on the decision engine has gone up 13%, Bing could start seeing more advertisers who care about ads performance to distribute their thin budget into Bing soon.  That means great news for Bing team and could possible to generate more revenues for Mr. Ballmer’s company.

(chart: efrontier.com)

Bing Decision Engine Optimization (DEO) versus Google Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Here is a quick summary from an interesting blog at webpronews.com which was written by Chris Crum.

(1) Bing DEO vs. Google SEO

Difference: each has its own algorithms robot crawler

Similarity: both engines like quality, relevant links and great and fresh content.

(2) Bing “explore pane” vs. Google "search options"

Difference:
(a) Bing users can utilize “explore pane” automatically while doing search, a left-hand side navigational menu.  Bing separates search results into categories (such as: shopping, brands, providers, accessories, images, videos, and local).

(b) Google has just recently added "search options" on top left-hand navigational menu.  This option will allow users to filter their search results and clean up irrelevant search results.  This new option may also offer users a broader ways to locate information and contents.

Similarity: website owners need to create quality, relevant and fresh content.

Bing mobile apps: web on the go for American users and soon for European users

All major tech news reported the important of one million Apple’s iPhone 3GS sold and six million users have downloaded the brand new 3.0 software within the first week launch.   Early today istartedsomething.com wrote about Bing’s planning to launch new mobile features which were a copycat of Live Search mobile.   In the same time, Bing mobile team has sent a Twitter to its followers to warn about the new Bing mobile services to be launched soon.

Bing mobile apps provide local business listings, maps, and driving directions, which mostly for American users.  Bing mobile apps use voice search and location-based services to help users who use web on the go.  According to istartedsomething.com, in August or September, the new Bing mobile will expand its service to European users, incl.  the UK, France and Italy.
 

Bing 411

Without any fanfares Bing 411 (1-800-246-4411) was launched to American users in the past couple of days. 

As seen on Bing 411 website, the site offers help to users when they are not using a laptop or desktop, such as:
(1) Find local shops and restaurants (i.e., search by name of business)
(2) Get traffic, movie times, and weather (i.e., listen to the latest traffic reports)
Etc.

Bing 411 is powered by Tellme which Microsoft acquired this tech company a couple of years ago.  Tellme advantage includes its widely use speech recognition technology.

Bing 411 is a free service and users can receive a text message (SMS) with a link to a Bing Map. The system also provides some kind of reviews sites and business directory.

American developers can win $10 Grand by building an application with Bing API (contest deadline is August 12)

After a series of pay-per-click ads and TV ads, Bing is now partnering with Will Code for Green to offer American developers to win a total prize of $10 grand.  The deadline to enter the contest is August 12. 

To be eligible, American developers must use Bing API to create a solid web application include tools and information site (with its own URL). As reported by arstechnica.com, there are two content categories for the contest:
(1) "How to deal with the worsening global economy (Economy Category)" or
(2)  "How to take steps to improve the ecology of the planet Earth (Ecology Category)"

Bing’s parent is willing to invest $6 billion to $11 billion for five years

With an annual operating income at around $22.5 billion (using 2008 data), Microsoft’s boss Mr. Ballmer told a business luncheon in Chicago on Thursday that his company is willing to invest 5 to 10 percent of the annual operating income in decision engine business for up to five years.

"Our shareholders, I told them we were willing to spend 5 to 10 percent of operating income for up to five years in this business, and we feel like we can get an economic return," Mr. Ballmer, as reported by Reuters.

Bing decision engine continues to gain ground with web users for the past three consecutive weeks.  As reported early this week, comScore latest data showing Bing’s searcher penetration is now at 16.7%, compared to before launch at 13.7% (an increase of 3%).

Bing’s boss, Mr. Ballmer: Bing is a long-term project

As Microsoft continues to gain search market share thru Bing decision engine, at the National Summit in Detroit on Wednesday, Bing’s boss, Mr. Ballmer, acknowledged the difficult job of defeating Google search engine, which Mr. Ballmer referred to as "a big dog competitor," as reported by Reuters.

Mr. Ballmer was quoted "I don't want to over-set expectations. We are going to have to be tenacious and keep up the pace of innovation over a long period of time."

Click here for a full transcript of Ballmer's speech to Fortune 500 CEOs at The National Summit in Detroit

Me too . . . Google decision engine

This week we have witnessed many top bloggers wrote about fears and paranoia leaking out of Googleplex.  While several Internet traffic stats (incl. comScore) continue to present weekly data showing Bing’s growth in search market share worldwide, Google homepage just added a link that said “Discovering the web: Explore the world of Google search.” After a click from this homepage, it went to a new page with a title “Explore Google Search,” showing many tiny icons representing several types of search capabilities.

As Bing has already optimized its decision engine around vertical markets included shopping, travel and health, since its launch few weeks ago. Google is now trying to remind its users that they are also considered as a “decision engine” with so many features including:

• Weather
• Local Businesses
• Movie Times
• Flight Tracker
• Dictionary
• Package Tracking
• Area Codes
• Public Data

 

Bing continues to penetrate America’s search market: comparing one week before launch and two weeks after launch

According to comScore, Bing continues to gain more fans in search market for the past two consecutive weeks.  The latest comScore data shows that Bing penetration to America’s search market reached 16.7 percent after two weeks launch, an increase of 3.0 percent from one week before launch.

Bing’s share of search result pages/queries in America increased to 12.1 percent after two weeks launch, an increase of 3.0 percent from one week before launch.

“It appears that Microsoft Bing has continued to generate interest from the market for the second consecutive week,” said Mike Hurt, comScore senior vice president. “These early data reflect a continued positive market reaction to Bing in the initial stages of its launch.”

(chart: comScore)

Fraudsters-be-gone

As many reports show that one of every six pay-per-click ads were from fraudulent users, or fraudsters.  Bing’s parent company, Microsoft Corp, has filed a lawsuit against three fraudsters who live in Canada.  Several bloggers praised this move by Bing's parent company to increase advertisers' confidences of using Bing services.  Advertisers would hope this aggresive Microsoft’s lawsuit will reduce fraudsters for a long run.

According to the lawsuit, those three have been clicking for profit and manipulating on ads serving by Microsoft's online advertising service (adCenter).  Microsoft is asking for damage of $750,000 as a result of the click fraud operation by those three Canadian individuals and companies.

Hunch, Bing’s brother in decision engine family

Caterina Fake, a millionaire who co-founded Flickr (sold to Yahoo in 2005), launches Hunch which is a website to help users to make a “real” decision.  Buzz word of “decision engine" has become a hot item on Internet since Bing launched few weeks ago with a super budget of $100 million.  Hunch is somewhere close resemblance to Bing which uses a tagline “decision engine.” 

Hunch is a tool or process or a set of queries that starts with continuous questions/answers.  Hunch has about 2,400 of topics with questions/answers. From the first question, a user is gone thru step-by-step similar to a path like a family-tree. After users received a first answer, Hunch provides a new lead to a different path of the tree.

Let’s watch this summer box office movies “The Search Engine Wars” and "Cape Fear"

According to NYPost, Sergey Brin, the Google co-founder, is leading a team of top engineers, stats guru, and search-engine specialists to tune-up Google’s coding system to battle Microsoft’s new decision engine Bing.  There should be a couple of great box office movies to watch this summer.
 
Bing continues to gain more fans and users with its online pay-per-click and TV top-rating shows ads.  Googleplex seems to get jolted by several earthquakes since early June.  A lot of fears there.  As we’ve previously reported, Bing’s search penetration increased 2% compared to one week before its launch. 

As NYPost wrote “…The move by Brin is unusual, as it is rare these days for the Google founders to have such hands-on involvement in day-to-day operations at the company…”

Websites with Google Analytics installed are now recording Bing as a “search engine”

For almost two weeks after the Bing’s launch, the popular Internet traffic stats tool, Google Analytics tool considered Bing as a referring site in the traffic sources reports.  But for now, according to the Official Google Analytics Blog, Google Analytics tool has been updated to record Bing as a “search engine” in traffic source category.

“…We are actively working on an update that will include Bing under the default list of search engines in Google Analytics…”

Bing added tools and a new domain name (bing.net) to block porn

As many parents are continued to worry with Bing’s filtering system which showing potential harmful and explicit content for underage users, Bing reacted quickly by providing safer searching. 

As Bing team said “explicit images and video content will now be coming from a separate single domain, explicit.bing.net.” 

“…parents should be able to use parental control tools to block that domain and therefore block the images and videos…”

With this newly added tools and a new domain name (bing.net), parents could use parental control tools to block the domain (bing.net) and automatically block the harmful and explicit images and videos.

Bing is dubbed as “biying” in China (targeting 300 million users)

As we reported last week, many American Internet services were blocked due to the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, Bing is now available to China mainland users.  China huge Internet market accounted for 300 million users.

Since the tag line for Bing is a “decision engine”, the Chinese brand of Bing is dubbed as “biying” which mean “giving answer.”   That is a very close to what Bing's intention for Chinese users to use the engine. 

In China, “bing” has many meanings, include “sickness” or “getting cold” or “ice pack” (example, “bing shui” if you asked for a glass of “ice water” in a Chinese restaurant).

Bing vs. Google vs. Yahoo: one week before launch and one week after launch

As we reported early this week citing comScore data, compete.com latest data also show some improvements in Bing search penetration.  This is a great news for Microsoft's Bing team.

compete.com just reported that Bing has raised its search penetration by 2.3%, this result was almost similar to comScore which reported an increase about 2.0% in search penetration few days ago.

Bing confused: remnant ads

It appears that some remnant ads are still running and showing Live Search ads on MSN.com.

This was spotted after two weeks of the newborn was pushed out of Microsoft’s labs.

On the launch day early this month, the search box at MSN has been immediately powered by Bing. 

Interesting to watch when those remnants go way?

This may have confused many new Bing users?

Bing translator tool for International users

The new Bing translator tool, also tagged as “free online translation service for a truly worldwide web,” allows users to translate a webpage or a phrase or a word in real-time, from major languages to English or vice versa.  It’s currently supporting languages include:

• Arabic
• Chinese
• Dutch
• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

Also, users can easily type “translate [something]” and Bing will automatically return a list of answers in major languages (see example on a print screen)

Bing UK traffic

Based on a week of usage data, Hitwise reported that Bing UK market share has started to increase and remain strong since its launch early this month. 

Bing UK traffic was peaked on June 3 and making Bing the top 8th position of most visited website in Britain, and taking about 10.8% of the UK search engine market.

Bing vs. Google: some reviews

Although we have presented most of the issues/comments about Bing from many sources in the past two weeks, I thought I’d like to share this interesting blog about the current competition between Bing vs. Google, which was written by Chris Thompson of The Big Money. 

“…It's round 50-something in the war between Google (GOOG) and Bing, Microsoft's new/rebranded search engine. And all around the Web, the critics are still offering their consumer reviews, trying to figure out which doohickey is the niftiest. Other folks are cooking up supposedly objective tests to ascertain the utility of each site…”

The performance of Bing.com decision engine: comparing one week before launch and one week after launch

According to comScore, Bing.com decision engine is now gaining more American users than before launch. 

Using data from one week before launch and one week after launch, Bing.com has increased its penetration to American users from 13.8 percent during the period of one week before launch to 15.5 percent during the week after launch (an increase of 1.7%).

Bing’s share of search result pages in America increased from 9.1 percent to 11.1 percent during the one week before and one week after launch (an increase of 2.0%).

 

BingTones: Bing-branded ringtones

Mobile users can now download the Bing-branded ringtones, or BingTones, at Microsoft’s download center.  All BingTones are in MP3 format.  Download size is 630 KB.  User popularity number is 133. 

Eye tracking technology research findings: the battle between Bing (Decision Engine) vs. Google (Search Engine)

User experience researchers at User Centric, Inc., a Chicago-based company, using eye tracking technology found that Bing generates better clicks for advertisers. 

As seen on the image, Bing search result page is divided into 3 columns.  Researchers at User Centric found that Bing users were much more likely to look at the search ads on the third columns (far right side).  Researchers found 42 percent of Bing searchers looked at the right side links, while only 25 percent looked on Google search result page.

User experience: Bing vs. Google

Bing APIs, the new online money making machine with a ton of tools and services

Bing now has an API for developers.  The Microsoft’s decision engine just added a new Bing API Profile with technical details. The Bing API is a new name which was changed from previous version of Live Search API.  The new API is enhanced with many new features, tools, and new service.

As seen on Bing API site, developers can connect and build applications with the new API with several options & tools, including:
(a) choose a SourceType
(b) choose an output protocol (JSON, SOAP, or XML)

As we quoted from the Bing site, key improvements to the Bing API include:
• Multiple protocols: JSON, XML, SOAP
• Multiple SourceTypes: Web, Images, InstantAnswer, Phonebook, RelatedSearch, Spell, and more…
• Unlimited use for customer-facing sites and applications
• Flexible presentation options: No restrictions on ordering and blending results

Aside from building applications, Bing API also offers developers to monetize their websites.  Developers can build revenue stream thru Bing search ads (for content network and pay-per-click), which is also known as adCenter Publisher.  The online money making machine is now only available for American publishers.

Bing Developer Center

Bing traveler decision engine

Bing Travel gives traveler comparison advices on prices of airline tickets and hotels.  In order to suggest a great deal, the engine archived historical data, seasonal activities and trends.  By combining those old and new data, the engine predicts whether airfares are likely to go up or down on a user chosen route and date of travel.

Bing travel booking and advice

Rebranding to Bing.com is a good thing

As Arstechnica.com said “...the rebrand of Live Search [to Bing.com] was a good thing.”

Microsoft has three important areas to tackle online:
(a) To increase public awareness of a search brand, this is now called Bing.com, the decision engine which was introduced last week.
(b) A strong and real-time portal service, which Microsoft continued to use since the beginning of Internet era in the 1990s, MSN.com
(c) The presence of online services extension for its big chunk money makers, Windows and Office, which have been known as Windows Live and Office Live since 2005.

Bing is eating Yahoo’s lunch and taking a bite of Google

According to StatCounter, Bing has been eating Yahoo alive in the past few days since its birth few days ago.  With a beefy marketing budget near $100 million, Bing is now the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide.

In a worldwide scale, Google is taking about 87.66% of search volume, compared to 5.56% for Bing, and 5.17% for Yahoo.

Bing.com must see TV ads, a full month of June's schedule

To gain Americans fans, Microsoft's Bing.com decision engine has made a long list of dates to appear on several top TV shows and online video ads via Hulu.com.

Based on NY Times, here is a list of Bing.com TV ads for June:
(1) Hulu.com: Monday (June 8) 8:00 PM EST
(2) “Late Show With Jimmy Fallon”: Friday (June 12)
(3) “The Philanthropist”: Wednesday (June 24)
(4) June 11 to June 17:
      a.“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” on Comedy Central
      b.“Top 20 Countdown” on CMT
      c.“The George Lopez Show” on Nick at Nite
      d.“Charm School” on VH1 
      e.“Real World — Road Rules Challenge Duel II Reunion Special” on MTV

Bing’s porn engine

Internet safety experts warned early this week that Bing video feature allows anyone and of any age (incl. underage) to view explicit pornographic materials without even have to leave the decision engine. 

Bing video feature which is also known as “autoplay” tool allows users to preview videos simply by hovering a mouse over the grid of videos. This feature also comes with sound as well.

The good news is that Bing lets users to set filtering preferences (“safe search”) at one of three levels, including strict, moderate or simply off.

Bing for Mobile Decision Engine

American mobile users can now access the newly launch Bing.com thru smartphones, cellphones, and other mobile devices.  To access please go to m.bing.com.  

Bing for Mobile decision engine has great UI for accessing and viewing website and mostly fit the size of user’s smartphones/cellphones.

 

Bing.com official launch date

The Bing's official worldwide launch date is today, June 3. 

As the clock hit midnight in Pacific Standard Time, Bing’s online ads are running everywhere, incl. in MSN.com homepage (as seen on this screenshot). 

As reported last week, Bing is also running pay-per-click at Google search engine.

No Bing.com in China

As millions Chinese people around the world are planning to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, Microsoft’s new decision engine, Bing.com, has been blocked for customers in China. 

Other Internet services that have also been blocked include Hotmail, Twitter, Opera, Live, Wordpress, Blogger and Flickr.  Google’s YouTube has been blocked inside China since March this year.

China blocks American websites

Club Bing: Play Games and Get Prizes

To increase public awareness of its newly launch “decision engine” Bing.com, Microsoft has introduced a casual games website similar to Live Club, which has now changed name to Club Bing.  Live Club significantly increased Live Search traffic when it was launched in 2006.

Club Bing is a place to play online casual games where users with a Live ID will earn tickets to exchange with prizes (such as free Microsoft software or an Xbox).  Favorite games include Spelling Bees, Chicktionary, Seekadoo, Clink, Flexicon, etc.

Bing.com is now fully loaded for American users with an interesting link to a welcome page

American users are now seeing a new homepage which formally bookmarked to live.com, and now redirecting to bing.com.  On top right corner of the new homepage, there is a link to an intro page “Live Search is evolving. Welcome to Bing"

Similarly to the case of this website, a glimpse of data was also shown at Bing intro page:  “…So far in 2009, there are four and a half websites created EVERY SECOND as the web continues to expand…”

Other interesting quote: “…We took a new approach to go beyond search to build what we call a decision engine. With a powerful set of intuitive tools on top of a world class search service, Bing will help you make smarter, faster decisions. We included features that deliver the best results, presented in a more organized way to simplify key tasks and help you make important decisions faster…”

"...you’ll Bing and decide..."

Bing.com Welcome Page