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Bing has proved to be one of the best investments that Microsoft ever made. Ballmer's failure as it related to Bing was trying to build an advertising platform
by CSMastermind 8y ago
Bing has proved to be one of the best investments that Microsoft ever made.
Ballmer's failure as it related to Bing was trying to build an advertising platform to compete with Google and failing.
- TheWiseOne 8y agoGenuine question - how is Bing a good investment? Isn't it essentially a non-factor in the search market?
- alttab 8y agoMy guess is the algorithms and infrastructure serve search functions across all of their products. The "search market" is really the "Display advertising" market, and sure, they suck at that because no one goes to bing. But bing isn't worthless.
- can16358p 8y agoI've lost trust on them the day they were busted copying results directly from Google (https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/ https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google/)
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- warty 8y agoIt's a huge guinea pig for .net, windows server, and azure - a perfect example of eating your own dog food.