Satya Nadella, senior vice president of research and development for
Microsoft’s online services division sent an email Monday to Microsoft employees encouraging them to begin testing the revamped search service that has been dubbed kumo.com. The testing of Kumo is only available on the internal network at Microsoft.
Mr. Nadella stated that he feels 40% of all searches leave the searcher empty handed and that Kumo was designed to organized search results in a way that would save the searcher time in finding what they were actually looking for.
In the screen shot of Kumo below, you can see how a search for “Taylor Swift” would be categorized by images, songs, lyrics, biography, music, albums or videos.
