Bing, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Bing comes up
The end of the network effect
- ▶ 9:30 Benedict Evans So it doesn't matter how much money Microsoft spends on Bing and how many people they hire, Bing can never be as good as Google. 2 times in the scene
Google's Antitrust case
- ▶ 2:40 Benedict Evans Um, and so Bing has invested about a hundred billion dollars over the last 20 years, and they've got 10%, five to 10% share of US search.
- ▶ 5:02 Benedict Evans Again, in that, um, you know, you don't use Bing because it's not as good. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:20 Benedict Evans Spinning out Android to me is, like, completely irrelevant, because, like, read back what I just said, like, if Android's a separate company, that's not, why is it going to choose Bing? 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:12 Benedict Evans Is, which we could have said five years ago, is, okay, so far we've been talking about Bing. 3 times in the scene
Buzzfeed News, Reddit and OpenAI
- ▶ 18:50 Benedict Evans Well, this is what Bing have tried to do, which is just this hilarious, like, cluster of the way that they've, they've rolled out Bing chat.
GPT-4 is here, now what?
- ▶ 6:27 Benedict Evans Um, and also now Bing has launched its own image generation system as well. 2 times in the scene
ChatGPT versus Google
- ▶ 0:31 Benedict Evans No one, search isn't a thing, and then search is a thing, but no one realizes it's important, and then Google works out that it's important and how to do it, and for at least 15 years, maybe longer, Google has been sort of two or three… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:15 Benedict Evans Yes, which is, to me, is more interesting than does, does Bing, does everyone move to Bing? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:46 Benedict Evans And so you would see a shift in traffic towards that aggregator layer, whether it was Google or, or Bing, or some new site.
Clubhouse and the endless cycle of social apps
- ▶ 23:07 Benedict Evans Google compete with Bing or Amazon and Facebook. 2 times in the scene
How do you destroy a tech monopoly?
- ▶ 20:49 Benedict Evans If you are Sundar Pichai at Google, do you spend more time thinking about Bing or Amazon?