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...However, the new AI features have done little to boost Bing’s market share, which lags far behind Google....
...These would be similar to GPT-4, which powers part of Microsoft’s Bing search engine, and LamDA, Google’s model that powers its Bard chatbot....
...You know, there’s no danger of that being suddenly usurped necessarily by Bing or even by smaller kind of start-ups like Perplexity just yet....
...And there’s a bigger mystery: why does Microsoft continue to make Bing the default on desktops and laptops when everybody switches away?...
...OpenAI could help Microsoft turn Bing into a real rival in search. Uncomfortably for regulators, their new-found zeal is a function of past failures as well as tech scale advantages....
...This will require investment in developing video ads. But the investment is helpful if search ad revenue grows. Other areas of business face a tough year....
...Microsoft’s share of internet search traffic has edged up since it stole a march on Google a year ago by adding AI-powered elements to its own search engine, Bing....
...“We never want to have ads. We think ads were one of the things that corrupted Google search.”...
...The company says that its goal is always to provide “ads that are useful”. It points out that not every search result has ads, either....
...It came the day after Microsoft unveiled a new version of its Bing search engine that incorporated AI advances including summarising answers to search queries and generating emails and lists....
...Its huge ad business can easily finance this. Alphabet cannot allow Microsoft to increase the competitive advantage of its previously dire Bing service unopposed....
...Advertising brings in more than $10bn in revenue annually for Microsoft, making it the fourth-biggest digital advertising player, with most of its sales coming from the Bing search engine and jobs postings...
...Today, ads for La-Z-Boy emphasise its suitability for family life....
...In the third century AD, a dictionary listed various types, including “soup bing”, an early prototype of boiled noodles served in broth....
...But, said Watson, “if the query can be more complex and targeted, so can the ad. That makes [ads] much higher value, and potentially changes the pricing model.”...
...Director Gertrud Bing lobbied for a modernist home for a very modern institution, but it ended up with a design mix, an English municipal-town-hall extension in neo-Georgian....
...Meanwhile, Bing owner Microsoft has criticised Google’s threat to shut down its search engine in Australia. 2....
...Its rival start-up Neeva’s most radical departure from the Google playbook is that it charges a subscription, promising fewer ads and greater privacy....
...But the face is modelled on a work from the 7th-century AD Buddha Vairocana of China’s Longmen Caves While Lantau hosts Hong Kong’s international airport, its south side — whose coastline was once known...
...Google caved after earlier threatening to quit the country and cede search to rivals such as Bing....
...By 2020, according to GroupM, publishers accounted for a dizzyingly modest share of the $578bn ad market: 8.3 per cent....
...A cutback in technology spending by small and medium sized businesses, weakness in job advertising on LinkedIn and a sharp decline in ads on the Bing search engine all weighed on performance....
...Advertisers will not be inclined to buy ads from platforms if they think the quality of those being paid to watch their ads is lower than those on platforms that do not do so....
...Regulars on the parents’ discussion forum are in a rage after the maker of the best-selling marge said it was ending its association — that’s ads to you and me — with the site....
...does have other private museums, this is the first to show modern and contemporary art, both western and Indonesian; on my visit, it had just inaugurated a retrospective of the esteemed Chinese artist Xu Bing...
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