Microsoft decided that 2009 was the year it would challenge Google on the search giant’s turf, through launching a rebranded search engine, Bing, and signing a search-and-advertising partnership with Yahoo designed to give Microsoft more share in the U.S. search engine market. Microsoft spent much of the fall incorporating new features into Bing, although it also experienced some minor hiccups, notably a small downtime incident and a conflict with The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
– Microsoft decided to challenge Google more robustly in the U.S. search-engine arena in
2009, pouring millions of marketing and development dollars into a revamped and
rebranded search engine, Bing.
Microsoft originally announced Bing as the replacement for
its Live Search at the seventh annual D…