Bing.com Domain name first registered on January 29, 1996, although the registration date is only one year later than Yahoo.com, one year earlier than Google.com, but its fate is far more miserable than both.
In early 1996, Bing.com was first registered in a Colorado company to promote the company's mobile phone "notification device." That is, when there is a phone call, the device can be hundreds of feet away from the automatic vibration, play a role in reminding.
2006, this "notice equipment" withdrew from the stage of history, Bing.com also once reduced to rely on the domain name Park to feed their families. At the end of 2006, someone had registered the domain name, which was used to promote financial software "cha-ching".
A few months later, bing.com a makeover and was used by a company in Australia to promote its e-mail service.
After several setbacks, Bing.com has now been incorporated by Microsoft, the responsibility to publicize the brand of its new search engine.
May 29 News, Microsoft officially announced the launch of a new Chinese search brand "bing", the Meaning of "responsive". News, there are people in the industry to throw cold water, said Bing and Chinese "disease" homonym, made a big bogey, Bing difficult to escape by netizens abandoned results.
It remains to be seen whether the bing.com domain name can end its life at Microsoft.
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