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Was Kent the Inspiration for Microsoft's New Search Engine?

Microsoft recently launched its new internet search engine. It had been code-named “Kumo”, but when it went live it was under the name "Bing".
Search engines are becoming more and more important to our lives because of the spread of the internet. When my children want to research something for their homework, they wouldn’t dream of going to the library as I used to do; they type their questions into Google; the World’s most popular engine.
No-one seems to know just how many searches are carried out on Google each day, but it’s thought to be several hundreds of millions – and growing.

Is The Guardian's Technology Supplement slipping away?

I sat at the conference table today, reading The Guardian’s Technology supplement, wondering if I’d ever be saying “bing it” instead of “google it”. It didn't even cross my mind that later on I would reading about the sections possible disappearance.