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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:46:39 David Rosenthal We're heading right into Microsoft search efforts with Yahoo and then ultimately Bing and getting into the advertising business.
- ▶ 1:56:25 David Rosenthal Bing, after Microsoft would launch Bing the next year in June of 2009, Bing would take over powering Yahoo search for a deal that paid Yahoo one billion dollars.
- ▶ 2:02:35 David Rosenthal However, having your own browser when Microsoft does launch Bing
- ▶ 2:02:51 David Rosenthal And all of a sudden Microsoft launches Bing.
- ▶ 2:02:54 Ben Gilbert There's no amount of money suddenly that you could pay Microsoft where they would keep you as the default search engine because they just want all the traffic to go to Bing because they now have a great way to monetize.
- ▶ 2:03:04 David Rosenthal Bing.
- ▶ 2:03:07 Ben Gilbert And the thing that of course Microsoft would fail to realize with Bing is you can't be second place in search.
- ▶ 2:07:05 Ben Gilbert That was sort of nice, because you type in the URL bar and that's your organic typing, and then the other one is your, uh, I'm willing to give a kickback to Google, probably, but it could also be Bing, could be Yahoo, could be whoever.
- ▶ 2:18:36 Ben Gilbert I've been reflecting a little bit on, like, why, basically from 1998 onward, Google's biggest threat was Microsoft, and not because of Bing, not because of building advertising, because of this kind of destabilizing thing.
- ▶ 2:20:33 Ben Gilbert Let's say Bing launches in 2009 and there is no Chrome and Microsoft still has 70% share and will for a while.
- ▶ 2:20:40 Ben Gilbert And they make Bing the default.
- ▶ 2:20:48 Ben Gilbert So they basically would have like four years of 70% of people using browsers on any devices being defaulted to Bing.
- ▶ 2:21:12 Ben Gilbert To your point, maybe without Chrome, Bing would have been a serious competitor to Google.
- ▶ 3:21:47 Ben Gilbert The whole Chrome and Bing thing was defense against Microsoft, Android was defense against Apple and Microsoft, and Google Plus is now defense against Facebook.
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 1:06:32 Steve Ballmer The company, you know, AI, if we hadn't built Bing, company wouldn't have capability.
- ▶ 1:07:19 Steve Ballmer And even more so with Bing.
- ▶ 1:07:22 Steve Ballmer So we developed the capabilities, but then you look at the product and what was our strategy for Bing?
- ▶ 1:07:34 David Rosenthal Before the Bing rebrand, it was like Windows Live, right?
- ▶ 2:02:12 Steve Ballmer Bing, that's when we hire, I think that's when we hire Chi Lu.
- ▶ 2:02:40 Steve Ballmer And Chi, I think, went to graduate school with Harry Shum, who had been in Microsoft Research, and Harry was now working on Search, and he was working for Satya, who was running Bing.
- ▶ 2:02:56 Ben Gilbert Oh, Satya, the guy who was running Bing.
- ▶ 2:02:58 Steve Ballmer He was running Bing.