Bing’s family could be extended soon with a newborn sister who has a short name socl.com, or also known as Tulalip. The finding was first reported by a domainer at fusible.com who has been tracking the sale of a resemblance domain name social.com for $2.6 million in June. Socl.com domain name was owned by a regular domainer and later sold to Microsoft in early July 2011.
A text message on the new socl.com homepage reads “With Tulalip you can Find what you need and Share what you know easier than ever.”
Tech bloggers have been writing comments about the new social search service who many believe will soon compete with Facebook and Google+. At the same time tech watchers have also chasing the newest Bing’s family member into Microsoft headquarter in Redmond. However, a Microsoft spokesperson has denied the rumor. Citing the giant software company’s spokesperson, Matt McGee of Search Engine Land wrote about socl.com as “an internal design project from one of Microsoft’s research teams which was mistakenly published to the web.”
(Screenshot: fusible.com)
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