Posts About ‘Stefan Weitz’

A Peek into Bing’s Social Search Strategy

If there is one person in the industry who is constantly looking at how search and social are being combined and what signals there are in the industry which indicate further synergy, it’s Eric Enge.

Eric recently had an extensive interview with Google’s Matt Cutts and currently Eric is doing a series of short interviews with Bing’s Director of Search Stefan Weitz. In several short videos he talks to Weitz about different search and social related topics.

In the first two videos (you can see them below) Weitz commented on Social Signals (in a talk from last July), partnerships, Quora and Social Data sets. It gives us an interesting insight into Bing’s Social Search strategy, which is clearly different than the route Google is taking. And it might be a better route as well. (more…)

Five Questions For Bing’s Stefan Weitz

Last week Freshegg decided to provide us with some attention for Bing. They posted about Bing, made infographics and did a lot more. The idea was to “encourage people to break the Google habit and use Bing on Fridays instead.”: BingFriday.

A very nice initiative from Freshegg and much needed in these days when most of the talk is about Google (yes, we are guilty of that too). One thing Freshegg did was do a Q&A with Bing’s Stefan Weitz. (more…)

Stefan Weitz: Social Signals, Bing Mobile & Real-Time Search #SESNY

Give Mel Carson a microphone and he’ll get people to talk. In this case Bing’s Stefan Weitz who revealed what Bing was doing. And Mel did ask the question: when is Europe on Bing’s schedule? Curious about his answer? Check it out here:

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Bing takes first steps on the continent: launches in France: Bonjour!

We have been complaining about it, we have been asking Bing’s director Stefan Weitz: when will Bing finally make the step and go onto the European mainland. Now finally we found a small announcement on the official Microsoft Blog: Bing is now live in France.

“It’s a small step for search but a big step for Bing” One would almost be tempted to use these words when it comes to the steps Microsoft is taking with Bing in Europe. We’ve said many times before: Bing in Europe, except for the UK, is nothing more than Live Search with a Bing logo on it. Now with the move to France the first steps are finally taken. (more…)

State of Search radioshow – episode 45: Bing’s Stefan Weitz about copying, Bing in Europe and more

Bing is the second largest search engine in the world. And Google seems to be feeling the heat of the Microsoft search engine, given their fierce reactions to the alleged copying of search results. Last week we had Danny Sullivan discussing this topic on our radioshow. This week it was Bing’s turn to talk on our radioshow.

We were very happy to discuss all sorts of different matters about Bing. We started of with discussing why it is taking Bing so long to get to Europe and moved on to how Bing uses user intent, where even super computer Watson came by. Stefan also talked about Google’s accusations last week of copying results.

The shownotes are below. (more…)

What would you ask Bing’s boss Stefan Weitz?

The State of Search Radioshow is becoming more popular every week. And not just with the listeners, also with the guests. They are lining up to be part of the show which airs every Tuesday on Webmasterradio.

Last week the show had Danny Sullivan on as a guest and this week there is another great name we can add to our impressive list of guests: Stefan Weitz of Bing.

Stefan Weitz is the director of Bing. He is the person if you want to know anything about Bing. So we’ll be asking him everything we possibly can about Bing’s strategy, when they will be coming to Europe, their copying skills and the difference between them and their competitors. (more…)