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Microsoft announced on their internal network that the new rebranded version of Live Search (code name:kumo) will be on beta testing.  Satya Nadella,Senior Vice President Microsoft  send some email to his staff about this. Satya Nadella is a senior vice president and leads Microsoft Corp.’s engineering efforts in the Online Services Division, which includes the Search (Live Search), Portal (MSN) and Advertising platforms.

Kumo had been long rumored to be a possible name for the Live Search rebranding.Ultimately, Kumo is designed to be both a rebranding and an update for Live Search, although at this point Microsoft is describing it as “an internal test environment.”  So please don’t bother trying to type kumo.com yet as this is only for internal.

Here’s the text of an e-mail that mention about kumo :

From: Satya Nadella

Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:18 PM

To: Microsoft – All Employees (QBDG)

Subject: Announcement: Internal Search Test Experience

The Search team needs you. We’ve been working hard to improve our search service and want to share the progress we are making with you. We are launching a new test program called kumo.com for employees to try and provide feedback. Kumo.com exists only inside the corporate network, and in order to get enough feedback we will be redirecting internal live.com traffic over to the test site in the coming days. Kumo is the codename we have chosen for the internal test.

In spite of the progress made by search engines, 40 percent of queries go unanswered; half of queries are about searchers returning to previous tasks; and 46 percent of search sessions are longer than 20 minutes. These and many other learnings suggest that customers often don’t find what they need from search today.

We believe we can provide a better and more useful search experience that helps you not just search but accomplish tasks. During the test, features will vary by country, but you’ll see results organized in a way that saves you more time. An explorer pane on the left side of results pages will give you access to tools that help you with your tasks. Other features like single session history and hover preview help accomplish more in search sessions.

Your Next Search…

To get started, visit kumo.com or click one of the samples below to see how it’s possible to find the right results more easily:

As employees, you are some of our most informed users and our toughest critics, and we highly value your input and feedback to help us build a better service. You have been an important voice in our efforts, and the feedback you’ve sent us since the company meeting has been amazing.

When you visit kumo.com, at the bottom right corner of the each page you’ll see a feedback badge. We ask that each time you use the test site, click the feedback badge and take a moment to answer four quick and simple questions. Feel free to reach out to give us extra feedback directly on our blog and by mailing (an internal alias). For answers to common questions make sure to see our FAQ.

We are committed to rapid innovation and improvement. Please give the test site a try, rate the results and let us know what you think.

- Satya

And here’s screenshoot of Kumo :

And guess what, i found something that might be interesting. You can see from my screenshot here (taken from using checkdomain.com):

Ok now just wait and see what happens when Kumo gets released. It will beat Google or just just like cuil did.