[pil4rin]

Were there any studies on incorporating initial search to the young internet prior to deploying that to millions of people? Google started in a similar way. Worst case you get bad search results which is where Bing is already.

[nowherebeen]

The internet isn't young anymore. There are millions of people using Bing right now. There also wasn't any thought when people incorporated the like button in social media. Look how it turned out for its users. Search engines are a mature product with enough users. Microsoft isn't some startup and it has capital to do this.