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The software giant Microsoft has announced it is testing a new search engine, dubbed Kumo and in the future could replace Live Search, whose use is much lower than that of Google.

In a message broadcast on the ‘blog’ Live Search, its head, Mike Nichols, says that Kumo is a phase of internal testing and explains why the book: “There are many questions that have not opened this test to the public. But this kind of internal testing at Microsoft is relatively trivial and is something we do with many of our products before making them public. ”

The ‘blog’ on Microsoft releases first image of Kumo, which are functions to rank search results by gender (pictures, videos, etc.) and a space reserved for commercial links. Kumo is based on techniques for semantic search, what you want to interpret the web based on the questions and the words he employs. The traditional engines are limited to adding the words used in the search.

Microsoft confirmed that it could replace Kumo Live Search, as noted uin internal report Satya Nadella, vice president of U.S. group, distributed in many pages’ web ‘. This reflects the purpose of the colossus of the ‘software’ to compete in the field of engines, which now has only 8.5% of U.S. market, behind Yahoo (21%) and Google (63%).

In that report, Nadella said that aim to create a tool that not only help to find, but to do chores. ” Under the guidance of Microsoft, users will not often find what they seek, and in half the cases, they spend an average of 20 minutes trying to find it. Yet to decide whether Kumo would be the final name of the browser, should finally replace Live Search.

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