The Little Search Engine That Could
Redmond, Wash. — In Microsoft’s expensive, decadelong battle against Google’s search engine, no detail is too small. Derrick Connell, a Microsoft vice president in charge of the engineering side of the 4,000-person team that builds the company’s Bing Web search, takes work home with him every weekend. Connell reviews lists of common queries people type into the search boxes at Google.com and Bing.com. His team has spliced the universe...
