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Bing says "Hey, we have Twitter search too!"
On top of the basic ability to find the most recent tweets on your search topic, Bing can also show you popular links people are sharing on Twitter. This feature works well if you're one of those people who uses the search bar to go to a specific website. Bing's blog post uses a pretty good example: let's say you put TMZ into your search bar. TMZ would obviously be the first result, but underneath that, you'd see links to the most popular TMZ stories on Twitter.
I still like Google's Twitter Search better, but Bing would have fallen way behind without implementing some kind of social results, especially when it comes to breaking news stories. Bing's Twitter Search isn't flashy, but that's okay. It looks like the idea this time wasn't to outdo Google, it was just to keep pace with them. That doesn't mean Bing won't get more ambitious with social search in the future, though.
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Subscribe to commentsDarthNinjaApr 15th 2010 6:55PM
I'll bet the meeting for that feature went something like this:
Guy1: Hey, nobody is using Bing, everyone is still using Google!
Guy2: What could we add to bing that nobody needs or will use?
Guy3: How about a Twitter search?
Guy1: But nobody uses Twitter ether...
Guy2 and Guy3 (Together): EXACTLY!
cthormibisApr 15th 2010 8:13PM
@DarthNinja
Bing actually launched twitter search results well before Google. Google is simply 100-upping them.
DarthNinjaApr 15th 2010 11:50PM
That wasnt the point I was trying to make.
My point was that very few people care about "Bing!" and few care about Twitter (less on searching it).
0 + 0 = 0
AnthonyApr 16th 2010 3:07AM
@DarthNinja I used to be an avid "Googler," but I got fed up with the useless, non-related search results being clustered near the top. I've yet to run into that problem with Bing. Plus, I'm not crazy about Google's privacy policies. In fact, I would probably dump my Google account if it wouldn't take so much time to switch everything back over to Live Mail.
But, I do agree that Twitter is pointless. I logged into my twitter account for the first time in two years yesterday, but only because I blog was pestering me to login to the Twitter API. I mean, if I wanted everyone to know exactly what I was doing at random points during the day, I would send them text messages. They would then promptly respond "LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Android underlingApr 15th 2010 8:14PM
I use Google as my search engine, but I in no way base this off its twitter capabilities. I honestly couldn't care less if twitter results were removed from my general search results.