Kumo won’t be the final new name for Microsoft’s “Live Search” after all. “Bing” also still seems to be in the running. was almost a year ago that I received a tip that Microsoft was considering three new names for its Live Search engine. Those three were “Hook,” “Bing,
Office 2007 Standard Key,” and “Kumo.” After the LiveSide.Net sleuths discovered that Microsoft had taken control of the Kumo domains, it seemed almost certain that Kumo was going to be the new name. now I’m not quite so sure. According to a “Who Is” search,
Office Home And Business 2010, Microsoft is now listed as the registrar of the “Bing.com” and “Bing.net” domains. (It looks like Microsoft might have made its ownership public around March 4,
Office 2007 Professional Plus, according to information on the Who Is site.) Microsoft is redirecting a bunch of its own servers to point to Bing,
Office Pro Plus, as well. still also owns the Kumo domain names. iGenesis Limited in Hong Kong owns “Hook.com.”) Softies have been calling “Kumo” a code name for the past month or so, but few believed that the company wouldn’t also make Kumo (which means “cloud” or “spider” in Japanese) the final name. was starting to like Kumo. It sounds a lot better than “Bing it,
Office Professional Plus 2010!” asked before and I’m asking again:
[poll id ="32"] write-in candidates welcome. what it’s worth: Microsoft isn’t commenting on whether or not Bing will be the final name. I asked and got the official “no comment.)