Microsoft presses on with Kumo search plans
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Some secrets are hard to keep.
Microsoft is beginning internal testing of a major upgrade to its search engine this week, putting the rebranded version of Live Search -- the long-anticipated Kumo -- through its paces behind a corporate firewall.
The company's executives have made no secret of their commitment to staying in the search game, but details of the Kumo trail began to percolate on the Web following a Twitter post from Microsoft search strategist Barney Pell mentioning the rebranding. Pell came to Microsoft in last year's acquisition of PowerSet, the semantic search company he cofounded.