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▶ 2:44 Benedict Evans And Microsoft has spent God knows how many tens of billions of dollars on Bing, and it can never catch up with Google.

▶ 18:05 Benedict Evans And you just don't get, of course, what Bing and ChatGPG have is they've got like a manual filter to catch that.

▶ 1:51 Benedict Evans And ChatGPT or an LLM or Bing or whatever it is just tells you what the story is and explains it to you, and has got that from reading 200 newspaper articles. 2 times in the scene
▶ 18:48 Benedict Evans Well, so this is what, what Bing have tried to do. 2 times in the scene

▶ 24:35 Benedict Evans Um, and frankly, you know, this is, you know, take this to an extreme case of, you know, making fun of journalists who get Bing to say something bad, like,

▶ 5:22 Benedict Evans How does that intersect with, um, and one should presume that it's not that Google's version of doing this will be worse than Bing's, in fact it wouldn't surprise me if Google's version of doing this will be better, um, but it creates all…
▶ 23:42 Benedict Evans And so you could propose if you were at Bing, um, ok, the search has to be a hundred, the search has to be right, and it has to appear instantly. 4 times in the scene

▶ 18:16 Benedict Evans Or because you didn't have the right architecture, the web is the most radically decentralized system ever conceived of, and yet, if you want to look for something, you need somewhere to look, and that's probably going to be, and you know,…

▶ 32:36 Benedict Evans Um, I mean, it speaks back to sort of a generalized sort of point I've made about competition in tech, that, you know, what, do you think that Sundar Pichai gets daily updates on Bing or on Facebook Commerce?

▶ 18:31 Benedict Evans Why would the YouTube search engine do any better than Bing?

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