Microsoft has begun internally testing its new search service called Kumo and is asking employees to provide feedback.
"Kumo.com exists only inside the corporate network, and in order to get enough feedback we will be redirecting internal live.com traffic over to the test site in the coming days," wrote Satya Nadella, senior vice president of research and development for Microsoft's online services division in an internal memo.
Microsoft's moving forward in more ways than one. Even as it announced a new and more social Windows Live redesign this morning, Satya Nadella, a senior vice president, gave some details on the search side of things during a PubCon keynote.
Satya Nadella (Microsoft’s Senior Vice President of the Search, Portal & Advertising Platform Group) spoke at this morning’s keynote at the Search Engine Strategies Conference.
Microsoft doesn't have a Google-killer, and that's pretty much it. At least, that's how it sounds from a somewhat flippant Satya Nadella, Mr. Softy's newest head of search and search advertising.
"Microsoft: What Google Killer?"
The Live Search product will no longer be living in the same house with all of the other Windows Live products. A new leader will take it over as Microsoft forms a new "beat Google" corporate group.