Bing Has Integrated Hulu into Video Section

Bing Has Integrated Hulu into Video Section

REDMOND/NEW YORK — Bing, the new search engine released this week from Microsoft, has an agreement with Hulu to surface and play videos on its site.

Late yesterday we interviewed Stefan Weitz, Director of Bing in Redmond via video Skype. He spoke about the integration with Hulu and plans to integrate Bing with other premium content producers and aggregrators.

Stefan also addressed the issue of the the “moving thumbnails” and the question of fair use. Earlier this week, I reported that these thumbnails played full length and might be considered a violation of fair use. This is not correct, Microsoft has a technology which somehow samples segments from a clip and presents a short excerpt. I have amended my original post.

Andy Plesser, Executive Producer