Web 2.0 Summit: A Conversation With Qi Lu. Bing Wave 2 With Twitter.
TechCrunch — ... come into Bing in a constantly updating realtime feed (there’s a pause button for it too). There is also a retweet button to easily retweet and tweet you see in the results. Lu would not disclose what the financial terms were for this deal, but he did imply there was one. He also noted that the deal is non-exclusive. That’s important as there are also rumors floating around that Google is working with Twitter on a similar deal. Bing with Twitter is live now, you can find it here. Below, find the full Q&A ...

Bing Partners With Twitter and Facebook for Real Time Search
Wired: Epicenter — Microsoft’s search engine Bing has struck a deal with Facebook and the hot micro-messaging service Twitter, a brash attempt to add real-time web updates to its search results in order to make Google look like a lumbering dinosaur. Qi Lu, a longtime Yahoo engineer who became Microsoft’s VP of online services last August, announced the deal on stage at the Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco Wednesday. The beta site should go live within an hour, the company said, and can be found at Bing.com/Twitter. Microsoft is going live Wednesday with beta test of a real-time search powered by a ...

Microsoft announces Facebook, Twitter search partnerships
Webware.com — ... The Twitter partnership, which will bring all real-time public tweets to Bing, is slated to go live in beta on Wednesday at bing.com/twitter. The Facebook deal, to access all information shared publicly on the social network, will arrive "at a later date," Mehdi said. It's all part of Bing's strategy to harness "the emerging hot area of real-time information," he added. No financial terms were disclosed. ...

Web 2.0 Summit: Bing Wins Facebook, Twitter Partnerships
TechWeb — ... Francisco on Wednesday morning. "We are going to get access to all of the public Twitter information in real-time," said Mehdi. A beta of the new version of Bing with Twitter data , referred to by Mehdi as "Bing Wave Two," should go live shortly. Facebook integration, he said, would come later. Lu described the partnerships as one step in many toward Microsoft's search goal of understanding user intent, an aim he likened to building "a mind reader." Lu was one of ...

REVEALED: Details of Bing’s Twitter Search [Screenshots]
Mashable! — This morning, big news broke that Microsoft had penned deals with Facebook and Twitter that will integrate status updates from the two popular social media services into the Bing search engine. Now, the details of the deals are being revealed by Microsoft’s search team, led by executive Qi Lu at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Here is the drill down of the announcement: 1. It’s official: Microsoft has penned deals with Facebook and Twitter. 2. Twitter integration is coming first, and goes live in beta today. You can access ...

Find Facebook and Twitter updates on Microsoft Bing
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0 — ... The Twitter partnership, which you can try out here, will include Tweets that match search terms, allow users to rank them and filter out the most relevant Tweets. ...

Yup, Bing Gets Twitter Search
Technologizer — ... ): Bing has a deal with Twitter to provide a much more sophisticated level of Twitter search within Bing. We just saw a demo of the new features, which are supposed to be live at http://www.bing.com/twitter shortly. (I’m getting that home page, but an error when I try to search.) ...

Twitter Gives Bing Access to the Firehose, Promises More to Come
louisgray.com — ... quality and trustworthiness. Providing the top links shared on Twitter around your specific search query by showcasing a few of the most relevant tweets. Additionally, Bing automatically expands those small URLs (like bit.ly) to enable you to understand what people are tweeting about. Instead of showing standard search result captions, we select 2 top tweets to give users a glimpse of the sentiment around the shared link. You can try out the new Bing Twitter search beta here momentarily or learn more about it at the Bing blog. Please note that ...

BREAKING: Microsoft’s Bing and Twitter search results live [Screenshots]
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... we just found out that the Twitter search on Bing has gone live. I am only now playing with it so I don’t a real reaction yet to the whole thing but here’s some screenshots of what is there for you to explore. ...

Microsoft’s Qi Lu Talks About Bing (and Confirms Facebook and Twitter Real-Time Data Deal)
Bink.nu — Microsoft digital head Qi Lu took to the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit conference this morning, where he confirmed a “strategic” deal with both Facebook and Twitter to integrate real-time information into its Bing search service. BoomTown broke news of those twin deals earlier today. Bing’s Twitter integration in beta form is now live here (see an image of it below; click on it to make it larger). Facebook’s integration will come later, said Microsoft. Before announcing the deal, Lu–who is a ...

Microsoft: Bing Adds Twitter Search; Facebook Next
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — Microsoft (MSFT) today confirmed that the company is adding Twitter search to Bing. In a blog post, the company said that “one of the most interesting things going on today on the Internet is the notion of the real-time Web,” but concedes that the idea of accessing data in real time “has been an elusive goal in the world of search.” The company’s new approach to the problem: search the entire public Twitter feed. For now, at least, the Twitter search is not integrated ...

Twitter Comes to Bing
SuperSite Blog — ... Today we announced that working with those clever birds over at Twitter, we now have access to the entire public Twitter feed and have a beta of Bing Twitter search for you to play with (in the US, for now). Try it out. ...

Bing Goes Real Time with Twitter
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... trustworthiness. Providing the top links shared on Twitter around your specific search query by showcasing a few of the most relevant tweets. Additionally, Bing automatically expands those small URLs (like bit.ly) to enable you to understand what people are tweeting about. Instead of showing standard search result captions, we select 2 top tweets to give users a glimpse of the sentiment around the shared link. And to see it in action (or you can use it here): Interestingly, this comes at the same time as other real time ...

Bing Gets Closer to Real-Time with Twitter, Facebook Deals
ClickZ News Blog — Microsoft's Bing just got a little bit closer to delivering real-time search results through a pair of data deals with Facebook and Twitter. Speaking on stage at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Dr. Qi Lu, president of Microsoft's Online Services Division, told the crowd that Bing will begin offering a real-time index of Tweets, tools for filtering Twitter search results, and the top Tweets on a topic. The beta of Bing Twitter search is only available in the U.S. A search on Bing Twitter will bring up the most recent Tweets ...

Microsoft strikes search deals with Twitter, Facebook
Macworld — ... of the link, so that users know, before clicking, whether it’s a reputable site and thus avoid landing in a malicious phishing or malware-laden site. Bing will also display a tag cloud of the most popular Twitter topics, so that users can click on and dive deeper into them. The Twitter deal is nonexclusive, so Twitter can strike similar agreements with other search engines. However, for now, Bing is ahead of Google with an optimized search experience for Twitter that is already live . Although Google remains by far the most popular search engine, Microsoft is making a big push ...

Bing makes search deals with Facebook and Twitter
Download Squad — Filed under: Business, Web services, Search, Microblogging With so much hype about real-time as the future of search, it makes sense that the major players in search would make moves to partner up with real-time networks like Facebook and Twitter. What's ...

Microsoft inks Bing pacts with Twitter, Facebook
The Register — ... on the Twitter deal. Details on the Facebook pact are also sketchy, but Mehdi said the deal would see "public information data posts" from Facebook feed into Bing. In 2007, Microsoft invested $240 million in Facebook for a 1.6 per cent stake on the private company. Bing's Web2.0rhea experiment went live today (only in the US) at Bing.com/twitter . Its Facebook search results will arrive sometime in the future. After purchasing the startup Summize, Twitter offers its own Twitter search engine. But results can only be viewed in chronological order. Microsoft is also offering a ...

How Does Bing Rank Tweets?
WebProNews Feed — As previously reported, Microsoft has made deals with both Facebook and Twitter, which will see Bing feature updates from both networks in real-time search efforts. To me, this says that social media just became an even bigger part of search engine marketing, particularly with Google rumored to be talking to Facebook and Twitter too. Bing has already made a beta version of its Twitter search available to users at bing.com/twitter. The most interesting aspect of Bing's Twitter search is that it offers something plain old Twitter Search (formerly Summize) doesn't. That is a ...

UX Pros on Bing/Twitter: It's a Start, But Awkward
ReadWriteWeb — Microsoft has just announced at the Web 2.0 Summit that its search engine Bing now includes Twitter search results. Facebook messages posted by people with public profiles will roll out next, at a date to be determined. Twitter can bring a new level of up-to-the-minute information to web search, but can Bing add value to Twitter search? We asked three User Experience experts for their opinions about what Bing would need to do in order to succeed in this integration from a UX perspective. They agreed that there was exciting potential here but that the implementation was rudimentary. ...

Bing + Twitter
Geek In Disguise — Big news that I’ve been keeping shtum on for a while – Bing now searches Twitter. Yeah I know Google could do the same deal soon but for once it’s good to be first. I harangued the Live team earlier this year about Twitter and whilst I had zero to do with this deal I’m really pleased to see Bing get there first with this feature. check it out now ...

Bing to include real-time Twitter and Facebook results
TechSpot — ... may pose a threat to Google, which dominates the search market. For the first time, data will be available through Bing that is not present in Google's search results -- that may change, however. Both Twitter and Facebook are supposedly talking with Google to arrange a similar deal. According to AllThingsD the integration won't occur for a few weeks -- possibly months. In the meantime, Redmond launched a beta page today, which shows popular topics on Twitter, and Facebook update feeds are to be added at a later date. During a demonstration, the latest incarnation of the ...

Bing Partners with Twitter, Facebook to Bring Real-Time Updates to Search Capabilities
Xconomy — ... During his speech, Mehdi demoed Bing.com/twitter, which went live in beta form only minutes after the announcement. “We are going to get access to all the Twitter information in real time,” he said, while organizing the tweet index by quality, relevance, and social significance to make searching easier and more efficient. ...

Google Follows Microsoft With Twitter Search Deal Of Its Own
paidContent — ... There’s notably no mention of a Google deal to include updates from Facebook, which Microsoft also announced today. Microsoft should also have somewhat of an advantage in that its Twitter search feature debuted in beta this afternoon, so it could gain some traction before Google enters the real-time Twitter search fray (An aside: It might help if Bing’s feature—which you can try out here—was more straightforward and visually appealing. It’s unclear to me, for instance, why there are two groupings of “hottest topics” ...

Why Google and Bing's Twitter Announcement is Big News
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies. — ... The Bing interface is interesting, it seems to be a hybrid of a web search engine and a twitter search. Typing in a term gets you back both the latest tweets that match the keywords, as well as web pages that more than one tweet share in common that also match the keywords. This is a tacit acknowledgement that a lot of the useful content of Twitter is found in the web pages that are linked from the Tweets. ...

Twitter hooks up with Google, Bing
Betanews — ... Microsoft was first on the scene, when Redmond's President of Online Services Division Qi Lu announced the beta of Bing.com/twitter had opened at the Web 2.0 summit today. The beta provides a real-time index of tweets, and the ability to rank tweets according to its relevance. ...

Bing+Twitter = search clutter
The Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's blog — Good for Twitter that it persuaded Microsoft to give its high profile Bing search engine a dedicated Twitter search feature at www.bing.com/twitter. Will it be the best partnership/traffic deal ever made by a startup? It's a coup for a young company whose service often fails and whose users tend to drift away after trying it out. The deal also gives Bing points among people who think Twitter is groovy, namely the crowd at the Web 2.0 conference where the deal was being announced. More and fresher Web info is better when it comes to search ...

Microsoft Befriends Twitter in Google Search Duel
Digital Trends — Microsoft Corp. has picked up a new weapon in its Internet search duel with Google — full access to Twitter’s communications hotbed. The partnership announced Wednesday represents a coup for Microsoft as it tries to spice up its Internet search engine, Bing, in its long-running attempts to lure traffic from Google. A test version of Bing’s Twitter feature debuted Wednesday. If the alliance pans out the way Microsoft envisions, Bing will become the best way outside of Twitter’s own Web site to find out what people are saying in their Twitter ...

Google Plays Second Fiddle to Bing; Announces Twitter Deal Too!
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... The rather brief blog announcement and the integration still “months” away–compared to Bing’s live test of Twitter results–suggests that Google was out-maneuvered by Microsoft–this time. ...

Twitter on Bing: live today in the US; trends, links, and more
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... We also have the “hottest topics on Twitter,” which is a tag cloud that you can click on to dive in. A real key is to look at the links. We look at what’s buzzy and show those to you. And with Bit.ly URLs we will show you the domain of where you’re going to land, so you aren’t tricked. (we emphasized some of the key points in bold, specifically de-emphasizing “Wave 2”, oh my) Twitter on Bing is live now (in the U.S.), you can try it at www.bing.com/twitter: Danny Sullivan has a good breakdown of Twitter on ...

Google Catches Up to Bing with Twitter Announcement
Wired: Epicenter — Google announced Wednesday afternoon that it too signed an agreement to get a direct feed of Twitter’s torrents of micro-messages, just hours after Microsoft upped the search ante by announcing partnerships with Twitter and Facebook. But in a reversal of roles, Google’s announcement comes without even a beta site for users to try. Microsoft, by contrast, launched a real-time search at bing.com/twitter earlier today. Tweets — short 140 character bursts of updates and information — published on Twitter.com’s proprietary platform, won’t be integrated ...

Google makes Twitter deal, too
The Microsoft Blog — ... and Facebook made it look like Bing finally had a rare leg up on market-dominating Google. Bing.com/twitter now draws in real-time Twitter data for people to view and search through. [image] A few hours later, and Google's back in the game. The Internet superpower ...

Twitter to start appearing in Google and Bing searches
Gear Diary — ... By now you’ve probably heard that both Bing and Google will integrate real time Twitter feeds into their search results. The Bing page appears to be live already at http://www.bing.com/twitter and ...

Get Ready For The Firehose. Search Is About To Get Realtime, Real Fast.
TechCrunch — ... to give them access to its full feed of public Tweets. Both search engines have been yearning to drink directly from Twitter’s the realtime firehose of micro-messages and all that they carry. A rudimentary version of Bing’s Twitter search is already live, and it will soon add public Facebook updates to its search results as well. ...

It's not just Bing - Google makes Twitter search deal, too
Download Squad — Filed under: Google, SearchWhen Microsoft partnered with Twitter to allow its Bing search engine to index tweets in real time, it looked like they had finally gotten the jump on Google at something. Just hours later, Google VP Marissa Mayer announced that the big G had made a Twitter deal, too. Although Bing's Twitter product is out today, Google's won't be too far behind. It looks like Google intends to use tweets to augment search results for up-to-the-minute data. In the official Google blog post on the ...

Bing Indexes Twitter Stream
SolSie.com — Bing Indexes Twitter Stream Web search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo already index the Web at an amazing rate to bring you fairly recent search results. But when it comes to people opinion, sentiment about certain subject, nothing can’t compare to micro-blogging platform such Twitter.  Twitter is producing millions of tweets every minute on every subject you can imagine and this pool of data has become a treasure to traditional search engines. Today Microsoft entered an agreement with Twitter to allow Bing index  the whole public Twitter stream and made it available to users. Bing offers a beta version at ...

Google Also Searches Twitter Tweets
I4U News — Google Also Searches Twitter Tweets Posted on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:21:59 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr | Topic: Technology News As reported Microsoft announced a search deal with Twitter making real-time Tweets available on the Bing search engine. Google also announced now the same deal and will bring real-time Twitter search to the Google search engine. Google has not launched their Twitter search yet, but Microsoft has. You can test their Twitter search here . For me though Twitter search is only useful if it is presented along with the results of my web query. Another issue is the high ...

Better Twitter Results in Google Search
Google Operating System — ... In the meantime, Bing has released a Twitter search engine that sorts the results by date and highlights the top links shared by Twitter users. ...

Bing Twitter search beta launched at Web 2.0
D' Technology Weblog — ... has a lot of followers, his/her Tweet may get ranked higher. If a tweet’s exactly same as others, it’ll get ranked lower. You won’t see protected or deleted tweets, and tweets don’t last more than 7 days in our index. Instead of usual captions that’re used for links, Bing give you a “social caption” and show you what people’re saying about these links. Visit: Bing Twitter search ...

Bing Twitter Search Goes Live
Search Engine Journal — ... are out coming from Microsoft’s President of Online Service Groups Qi Lu. The integrated Bing-Twitter search facility is also now out, well at least for U.S. users is reportedly now working. You can try it on this link. ...

Hands on with Bing's real-time Twitter search
Ars Technica — Bing has gained access to the entire public Twitter feed, which has enabled Microsoft to launch Twitter real-time search results in beta over at Bing.com/Twitter. Microsoft isn't the only one, as Google announced its own Twitter search deal within hours. Microsoft has also announced a global partnership with Facebook that will bring the social site's status updates to Bing search results, but that experience will be available at a later date that Microsoft refused to reveal. Both the Twitter and Facebook deals are nonexclusive, but ...

Google, Bing & (Yes) Yahoo Buy Tweets From Twitter
Search Engine Roundtable — Watching the search news yesterday was pretty interesting. First, there were tons of rumors that Microsoft will be integrating Twitter data into Bing. Then the news broke on that where Bing confirmed the news. It launched, in limited form, at bing.com/twitter . Shortly after, Google also confirmed a deal with Twitter to get their data as well and the news sites went nuts. Yes, Twitter is licensing out the "firehose" of the tweets to search engines. Bing was doing something like this on a limited basis with Twitter in Bing ...

Bing and Google to Include Twitter Updates in Search Results
GeekSugar — ... The feature is already live on Microsoft's Bing; Twitter posts appear based on key terms and tweets about hot topics. Click the "see more" link and you're redirected to a page containing recent tweets (that refresh automatically!) and a list of top links about the topic currently being shared on Twitter. ...

Bing’s Twitter Site Now Live, Helps to Separate the Wheat From the Chaff [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... that will see the three services sharing info and working together in all kinds of interesting ways. One of those ways has now gone live, and it’s Microsoft’s Bing Twitter search. It looks a little like Twitter Search, only better, and much more broadly useful. ...

Bing Is in Your Facebook, Indexing Your Status
Webmonkey — ... At the moment the Facebook integration is just an announcement, but if the end result is anything like the Twitter integration in Bing (which is already live), expect the focus to be on links and whatever the buzzwords of the moment happen to be. ...

Tweets to Appear in Google and Microsoft Search Results
Switched — ... Bing has already posted a beta version of its Twitter search tool -- www.bing.com/twitter/ -- providing a quick glance at the hottest topics and a collection of related links shared on Twitter. Google, on the other hand, has no concrete work to show off thus far. Google announced in ...

Bing & Google Rockin' Real-Time, Baby!
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Twitter Gets A Two Month Head Start Over Facebook On Bing
All Facebook — ... With an agreement signed, Twitter is now already live on Bing. Microsoft demoed the new Bing Twitter search on stage at Web 2.0 Summit yesterday in San Francisco and the service went live immediately after. Facebook however is weeks away and there is no information about just how much public data will be available to Bing. While Facebook has provided an “Everyone” privacy setting for profiles for some time now, we have no information about how many users have opted into that setting. ...

Twitter Traffic: 3 Solutions to Twitter’s Growth Problem
Mashable! — ... Both Bing and Google have tapped Twitter to serve up real-time tweets as a part of search results pages. Bing’s product is already live, and while it’s a separate web page from the Bing.com homepage, it’s a really impressive web and Twitter search mashup, with constantly refreshing tweets. ...

What is Twitter’s next step?
The Next Web — ... Even though Google CEO Eric Schmidt called Twitter a “poor man’s email”, he was willing to pay Twitter a fee to access the full tweet feed, as did Microsoft. And Microsoft gained some momentum by making the service available right after the announcement. The details of the deal are still unknown, but Twitter could not have better demonstrated how relevant it is on the scene of real-time search by striking a ...

Microsoft: 'visual search faster than text'
Techradar - All the latest technology news — ... "With Bing Twitter search we have access to all public tweets, in real-time. We are bubbling up the most tweeted articles from across the web. ...

BREAKING: Microsoft Launches Twitter Beta Search On Bing and It Has Retweets Built In
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... . Microsoft is being quiet about the service as of right now which is why they are calling it Twitter Beta. The URL of the service is http://www.bing.com/twitter/. The original Microsoft and Twitter deal was ...