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Microsoft buys ‘Kumo.com’ domain; may reflect on Live Search rebrand
D' Technology Weblog — ... Microsoft suddenly took control of the Kumo.com domain (Kumo means “cloud” or “spider” in Japanese.) that was moved from the registrar to Microsoft, and is now pointing to an ...

Microsoft to re-brand Live Search as 'Kumo'?
Tech Digest — ... There's some rumblings going around that Microsoft's intending to re-brand its unpopular search engine as 'Kumo'. There's no question that Microsoft wants to claw back some of Google's insane market share, but is this really the best way to do it? 'Kumo' means cloud, or spider, in Japanese. Both of those words have direct relevance to search engines. The rumours have come about because control of the Kumo.com domain has just passed to Microsoft, and the word was one of several (also including 'Bing' and 'Hook') that Microsoft was considering ...

Microsoft Live Search to Be Rebranded?
WebProNews Feed — ... : Fast forward to this week and Microsoft suddenly showed its hand. Control of the Kumo.com domain was moved from the registrar to Microsoft, and is now pointing to an ...

Breaking: Microsoft Leaked Memo Confirms Live Search Rebranding as Kumo.com
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — We’ve heard from a source close to Microsoft that rumors of the company’s plans to re-brand Live Search to Kumo.com are going ahead. Here’s a leaked screen shot of how Kumo will look: We’ve also obtained an internal memo that was just sent to Microsoft employees confirming that Kumo.com is being tested internally: 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 ...

NAQ: What is Kumo, and will I want to use it?
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... While Kumo is just a codename for now (visitors to Kumo.com are greeted with an "access denied" message), the changes it represents could eventually replace ...

Did Kumo.com go live last night?
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... In the blog post, Livelog mentions that Kumo works with IE8 Web Slices. As soon as we saw the tweet last night we rushed straight to http://www.kumo.com, but all we got was a blank page (and a Windows favicon, woohoo!). Seeing screenshots is one thing, but checking out Kumo’s performance is another, so we’re anxious to try it out. Did anyone catch Kumo in action? ...

Kumo home page
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... What's kumo? http://www.kumo.com/ Why doesn't it work at all using Safari? Did I miss the memo about Live Search be renamed? ...

Microsoft to launch Komo (Search Engine?) next week
The Next Web — Early Kumo Screenshot? The Wall Street Journals reports that Microsoft is expected to announce their new Search engine effort during D: All Things Digital. Apparently Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer himself will announce a search engine code named Kumo.com (empty ...