Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by

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Correct — A, Microsoft. Bing is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. It was launched in 2009 (replacing Microsoft's earlier Live Search) and was later rebranded 'Microsoft Bing'. It is Microsoft's answer to Google Search and is the default search engine in the Microsoft Edge browser.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Yahoo runs Yahoo Search, a separate brand. In fact, since a 2009 deal, Yahoo's search results have largely been powered by Microsoft's Bing — but Yahoo neither owns nor operates Bing.  (c) Alphabet is the parent company of Google — Bing's main rival. Alphabet owns Google Search, not Bing.  (d) Amazon is an e-commerce and cloud company (AWS); it runs product and voice search (Alexa), but not a general web search engine like Bing.

Concept: A web search engine is a service that indexes the internet and returns ranked results for a query. The big general-purpose engines and their owners are the exam's target here: Google (owned by Alphabet Inc.) and Bing (owned by Microsoft) are the two largest, with others like Yahoo Search and DuckDuckGo drawing on their indexes.

State PCS 2019 Q72 — Science & Technology PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2019 Q72 — Science & Technology PYQ with Answer