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Bing includes some Twitter activity in search
In another case of the undemocratic web, Bing is now including some Twitter users in their search results. Microsoft says the A-list tweets are worthy Bing says because everybody is working on real-time search.
According to a blog post by Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Search Technology Center:
There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created primarily by Twitter. We’ve been watching this phenomenon with great interest, and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space. Today we’re unveiling an initial foray into integrating more real time data into our search results, starting with some of the more prominent and prolific Twitterers from a variety of spheres. This includes Tweets from folks from our own search technology and business sphere like Danny Sullivan or Kara Swisher as well as those from spheres of more general consumer appeal like Al Gore or Ryan Seacrest.
Starting later today, when you search for these folks names in association with Twitter, you’ll see their latest Tweets come up in real time on Bing’s search results. … (Note this feature will be rolling out gradually over the course of the next few hours so you may not see it right away.)The answer will include that person’s latest Tweets, along with an easy link to “See more tweets” from that individual.
We’re not indexing all of Twitter at this time… just a small set of prominent and prolific Twitterers to start. We picked a few thousand people to start, based primarily on their follower count and volume of tweets. We think this is an interesting first step toward using Twitter’s public API to surface Tweets in people search. We’d love to hear your feedback as we think through future possibilities in real time search.
Firefox users can add Twitter search results to Bing and Google using Greasemonkey. It's just a basic results of the top five for any query and not very satisfiying.
A real-time search engine has yet to capture the marketplace, but Twitter and Microsoft and Google all seem to be working furiously to bring this to users.
Bing's limited addition of Twitter results to a search query will keep the buzz alive, and things at the Googlplex may be a little dismayed.
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