Bing
6 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 27, 2023 by Ronny Kohavi · said 12 times in 6 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (8), Ronny Kohavi (3), Ethan Smith (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)
- The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)
- LinkedIn’s product evolution and the art of building complex systems | Hari Srinivasan (LinkedIn)
- How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana)
- Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork & Airbnb, and thriving as a PM | Jiaona Zhang
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Everything said about Bing, oldest first
Jul 27, 2023 neutral
Microsoft's overall experiment failure rate is 66%, reaching 85% at Bing
“So overall at Microsoft, About 66%, two-thirds of ideas fail, right? And don't think the 66 is accurate. Like, you know, it's about two-thirds. At Bing, which is a much more optimized domain after we've been optimizing it for a while, the failure rate was arou…”
Jul 27, 2023 positive
Bing's search relevance team targets 2% annual compounding improvement
“One is at Bing, the relevance team. Hundreds of people all working to improve Bing relevance. They have a metric. We'll talk about, oh, we see the overall evaluation criterion, but they have a metric that their goal is to improve it by two percent every year. …”
Jul 27, 2023 negative
Bing wasted 100 person-years integrating social feeds before shutting it down
“We hooked into the Twitter Firehose feed, and we hooked into Facebook, and we spent a hundred person years on this idea, and it failed. You don't see it anymore. It existed for about a year and a half, and all the experiments were just negative to flat.”
Jul 27, 2023 neutral
Jul 27, 2023 positive