Microsoft’s Bing Logo Leaked By Way Of Favicon?

Within the next few days, Microsoft is expected to unveil its latest attempt at trying to be a player in the world of web search. After it has failed to get live.com any traction against Google, it will apparently launch a new engine called "Bing" -- the project formerly known by its working title "Kumo." This should be unveiled at the D conference which starts today in Carlsbad, CA -- but it looks like Microsoft may be giving us a peak at the logo a tad early. While it appears that Microsoft may have already taken it down, I visited bing.com in my browser about 10 minutes ago and sure enough saw the favicon you see above. It's a lowercase "b" with a yellow/orange dot in the middle. It would appear that this will be at least a part of the Bing logo. The light blue and yellow/orange color combination matches that of Kumo. I find that combination to be quite ugly -- sort of like the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball uniforms ( below ) from the 1990s -- but hey, that's just personal taste. All that really matters is now the search engine actually performs.