First screenshot of Microsoft's Kumo

Cnet writes:

"As I noted earlier on Monday, Microsoft plans to start internal testing later this week of Kumo, the rebranded version of Live Search. Now I have a screenshot to share."

[billez]

picture reminds me from naruto (akatsuki)

[Lord Anubis]

My apologies but because N4G does not support .bmp formats i had to google for Kumo and that's one of the pictures i got for it but it's completely unrelated to the search engine. heh :(

[terrandragon]

So, is this just an organized Google? Sorry, I didn't bother reading it.

[Lord Anubis]

this will summarize their intents:

"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."

[soul-sama]

google > everything else.

Sorry MS. You're out of your league.

[TheIneffableBob]

Microsoft Live's image search is actually very good. Better than Google's.

[YoMeViet]

hey if it better or somewhat rival google then bring it on, but if it lags behind then you developers better go back to your cubicles and start over!

[Argento-Nox]

They should just focus on Windows 7, their search engine has sucked since forever.