Microsoft’s New Kumo Search Engine Gets a Homepage

Friday, March 13th, 2009 by Andy Beal

Microsoft’s New Kumo Search Engine Gets a Homepage

When word leaked that Microsoft was testing its "Kumo" alternative search engine internally, a company spokesperson told me that there were no plans to re-brand Live Search to Kumo.

So why the effort to create a new Kumo hompage then?

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7 comments on “Microsoft’s New Kumo Search Engine Gets a Homepage”

Eddie Gear Says:

March 13th, 2009 at 11:14 am

WOW!

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Joe Hall Says:

March 13th, 2009 at 11:43 am

Kumo is Japanese for “Spider”, a fitting name for a search engine with its eye on the Asian market! Would make sense with that Chinese dragon.

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FS Says:

March 13th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Will be a search engine only for the asian people?

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March 13th, 2009 at 5:40 pm

[...] is sure making a lot of news in search these days. As reported here earlier the new look search of Kumo is lurking about although Microsoft is acting like Kumo is some kind of [...]
Muri@Payment System Says:

March 15th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

Awesome,I wish Google search Has Dark and more art like that,for me ,Kumo is a breakthrough of search design ,compare to search me and twitter search that has there own “Value as search engine contender” I think Kumo,is try to be one of it.Follow not the innovations,they Follow the Design ,they try to attract to “see there new look and start to search with it.well for me,that a good a tempt.and although “winning will be hard work to do,.at least they Try to”Good Luck Kumo.Beside Design I hope I could find another “innovations from you
Dion Roy, AMP3 Public Relations Says:

March 16th, 2009 at 12:07 am

Microsoft has really tried every trick in the book to come out on top.

I wonder if they can out do the Live Search Cashback of 30% that they did over the holidays! Now talk about throwing money at a problem (down the toilet)

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March 16th, 2009 at 3:27 pm

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