According to reports, stating a Microsoft spokesman, a new edition of the company's internal online search service is presently in its testing stage. The service, called Kumo. com, is a part of Microsoft's endeavor to pull alongside Internet search bigwigs Google and Yahoo!

While the undisputed Internet search leader Google has started making inroads into the Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft's core software business; the $47.5 billion Yahoo acquisition attempt by Microsoft was called off.

Though the details about the features of Kumo. com have not been divulged by Microsoft, the Monday launch was announced by the way of in an in-house memorandum, coming from the desk of Satya Nadella, the research head of Microsoft's online services division.

The memorandum, which became public courtesy The Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital blog, read: "Kumo. com exists only inside the corporate network, and in order to get enough feedback we will be redirecting internal live. com traffic over to the test site in the coming days. Kumo is the codename we have chosen for the internal test."

Saying that Microsoft is capable of providing "a better and more useful search experience" compared to the offerings at present, Nadella added that such a search experience will achieve not only the basic search objective, but also help users in accomplishing tasks!