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Farming has evolved into big business over the past 120 years. Raising livestock or produce focuses on yield. Mono planting (one type of crop) and warehousing large numbers of cash animals, such as beef and chickens in smaller confined areas, has economic advantages for the farmer and, in turn, brings better prices to the consumer. In... more »
The ability of the human eye to "see" is interdependent upon all of its parts. The purpose of the lens is to focus objects near and far to make them clear. The lens, like the lens of a camera, opens and shuts to allow light to reach the retina to focus an image. With age, the lens loses the function to refract light to bring images... more »
Live Search Maps, now known as "Bing," is an interactive map created by Microsoft. It's surprisingly easy to use, but it can seem confusing and illogical to navigate at first. Although it can be used like Mapquest, in that it can give you directions from one place to another, it has several additional features that make it unique. more »
Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is the current web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine")http://discoverbing.com/ from Microsoft. Unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, Bing is a replacement for Live Search. It went fully online on June 3, 2009, with a preview version released on June 1, 2009. By August 2009, Bing had gained 9.3 percent of the United States Internet search market. However, by September, StatCounter stated that Bings share of the US search market in September had fallen by over one percentage point to 8.51%. Comscore claimed otherwise, stating that Bings growth had held steady in September 2009, gaining 0.1 percent of the total United States Internet Search Market representing a market share of 9.4 percent.
Notable changes include the listing of search suggestions in real time as queries are entered and a list of related searches (called "Explorer pane" on the left side of search results) based on semantic technology from Powerset,http://d7.allthingsd.com/20090528/d7-interview-steve-ballmer/ which Microsoft purchased in 2008. Bing also includes the ability to Save & Share search histories via Windows Live SkyDrive, Facebook and email.
On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search.
History
MSN Search
MSN Search was a search engine by Microsoft that comprised a search engine, index, and web crawler. MSN Search first launched in the third quarter of 1998 and used search results from Inktomi. In early 1999, MSN Search launched a version which displayed listings from Looksmart blended with results from Inktomi except for a short time in 1999 when results from AltaVista were used instead. Since then Microsoft upgraded MSN Search to provide its own self-built search engine results, the index of which was updated weekly or even daily. The upgrade started as a beta pr read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing+(search+engine)
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