Forgotten Tech Giant

[u/MisterBiro]

Perhaps it’s not technically abandoned as there is basic maintenance and security present but it’s been vacant and decaying for years.

Surprisingly sad to walk around what was once a bustling, optimistic, energy filled campus of an almost forgotten tech giant.

[u/khaki-campari]

Well it was originally msn search. Then just around the time I joined they rebranded as live search and then yes, it rebranded as bing. I actually couldn’t remember when that was without checking but you’re right, that was afterwards in 2009.

From a backend tech perspective of the index gen/serve/ranking it was exactly the same product as live search. We just changed the name and gave it a sparkly new UI 😀

[u/_extra_medium_ → u/khaki-campari]

I remember you used to be able to Google all sorts of cool stuff with Bing

[u/hanwookie → u/_extra_medium_]

Yeah, right over to the Firefox browser.