The Ledger

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Opinion
Pinterest visual search beats Google and Bing in head-to-head tests
“You'll find that Pinterest is usually the one that comes out of top.”
Dave Burgess Apr 5, 2021 ▶ 13:06 Fireside Chat: Dave Burgess (Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest) w/ Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2031
Evans: Microsoft Bing will never catch up with Google in search
“Doesn't matter how much money and how hard Microsoft works, Bing will never catch up with Google.”
Benedict Evans Mar 19, 2026 ▶ 2:52 Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Delangue: Over 1,000 companies including Apple and Bing use Hugging Face
“And we have more than a thousand companies using our library from medium-sized one, like Monzo, for example, the banking one, to really large ones like Bing or Apple.”
Clement Delangue Jan 22, 2020 ▶ 1:17 NLP—The Most Important Field of ML // Clement Delangue, Hugging Face (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Supported
Foursquare location technology powers Apple Maps, Uber, Bing, and 100,000 others
“We power a lot of the location inside Bing. We power a lot of Apple Maps around the world. If you search in Uber or Tencent, Pinterest, and Snapchat, Samsung, Twitter, Garmin, these are among the 100,000 companies that now are using this technology set.”
Jeff Glueck Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 2:33 Location Intelligence // Jeff Glueck, Foursquare (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Assertion Supported
Google and Bing source their drug knowledge panels from FDA and HHS
“If you use a major search platform Google, or Bing, or others, and I guess a major search platform and you put in a drug name you'll see in the knowledge box, or knowledge panel, or something like that, you'll see a bunch of information, and sourced will be th…”
Nick Sinai Oct 16, 2014 ▶ 13:03 Nick Sinai, White House Deputy CTO // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
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