Bing Timeline

History of Bing

Period: Jun 1, 2009 to Sep 17, 2012

A brief history of Microsoft's Bing

Bing is launched!

Jun 3, 2009

Bing to power Yahoo! search engine

Jun 29, 2009

Microsoft and Yahoo! announce a deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! search

BingTweets initiated

Jul 14, 2009

BingTweets is a service that combines Twitter trends with Bing search results, enabling users to see real-time information about the hottest topics on Twitter.

Bing passes 10% market share

Aug 30, 2009

Bing integrates with Facebook

May 10, 2010

Bing Shopping launched

Jul 31, 2010

Bing's market share at 14.32%

Mar 31, 2011

Blackberry goes Bing in new Microsoft deal

May 3, 2011

Xbox 360 launched with Bing voice activation search

Dec 6, 2011

Bing's market share increases to 15.9%

Sep 1, 2012

Bing it On Challenge is launched

Sep 6, 2012

Google Bing It On

Bing to be default browser on Amazon's Kindle Fire

Sep 17, 2012