As Microsoft's new Bing search engine goes head to head with Google, it can count at least one major customer in its camp: Washington state. The state just announced it's going with home-grown Bing over Google to power the search feature on its official website.
The Washington State Department of Information Services spent a couple years looking at search engines and considered Google, Yahoo and others. Did the state choose Bing because Microsoft is based here?
"Of course we like that it's a local provider," said state DIS spokeswoman Joanne Todd, "but the bottom line was to get the best search engine we can get, and Bing was the best solution."
Todd said Bing is providing the search function to the state internet portal for free.
Will Washington state employees now be using Bing for their daily work as well? Todd said state employees are still free to use any search engine they like, including Google.
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