Microsoft's Bing Now Shows Some Twitter Updates
Bits — ... , the new search engine it unveiled a month ago, would begin including the latest output of popular Twitter users in its search results. “There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created, primarily by Twitter,” wrote Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft’s search technology center in Silicon Valley, in a blog post about the feature. “We’ve been watching this phenomenon with great interest, and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space.” The change will affect a limited number of ...

Bing Keeps Its Foot On The Gas, Adds Tweets To Results
TechCrunch — ... While that’s a little misleading — Google actually does have plenty of data that gets into its system almost immediately — what everyone seems to mean by real-time results these days is Twitter results. And that’s exactly what Bing is adding. Kind of. As it notes on its blog: ...

Bits: Microsoft's Bing Now Shows Some Twitter Updates
NYT > Technology — ... , the new search engine it unveiled a month ago, would begin including the latest output of popular Twitter users in its search results. “There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created, primarily by Twitter,” wrote Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft’s search technology center in Silicon Valley, in a blog post about the feature. “We’ve been watching this phenomenon with great interest, and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space.” The change will affect a limited number of ...

Microsoft's Bing Starts Indexing Some Tweets
paidContent — ... ) said Wednesday that its relaunched Bing search engine would incorporate some Tweets in its search results—becoming the first major search engine to do so. In a post on the Bing community blog, Microsoft’s Sean Suchter said that starting later today the company would index Tweets from a select group of people in both the “search technology and business sphere” and also from those with “more general consumer appeal.” ...

Bing brings out the Tweets
Webware.com — ... in the same sentence) when users search on their names and "twitter," the company announced Wednesday afternoon. It's not indexing all of Twitter, instead picking "a few thousand people to start" and using Twitter's public API to display those results in a special box among the other search results, such as stories that person might have written about Twitter. ...

Bing Includes Tweets With Search Results (For Famous People)
Mashable! — ... to the punch – at least in being able to say they include Tweets in search results. The implementation actually isn’t very exciting. Essentially, all Bing is doing is showing recent tweets from well-known people, and only when you search for that person’s name and Twitter in the same query. And it’s all just done via Twitter’s API, making it not a whole lot different than simple widgets that show someone’s most recent tweets. The Bing team explains on their blog: “Today we’re unveiling an initial foray into ...

Bing Starts Indexing Twitter Updates, Sort Of
Search Engine Journal — ... their full name as their Twitter username? Or how many users do their search on web search engine just to get these people’s latest Tweets? It would have been great if Bing (or the other search engines for that matter) will start indexing the Twitter stream and display Tweets along with the other web data that they crawl and display as search results. That’s more like a “real-time” search, right? Anyway, this could be a good start though. As the Bing community blog explained via a post: We’re not indexing all of Twitter at this time… ...

Bing Starts to Get Real (Time)
John Battelle's Searchblog — I've been complaining that nearly no search engines surface real time data (for now, that's Twitter, but Facebook is coming soon enough, and there will be tons more). In fact, I complained to Microsoft about this well before the launch of Bing, and then complained some more when Twitter results were not surfaced in initial beta versions of the service. Man, I'm grumpy lately, eh? Well, that's changing. Sort of. From a Bing blog post today: There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created ...

Twitter integration in Bing!
ithinkdifferent — ... name} in your search query on Bing. This doesn’t work perfectly yet as I found out because when I search for @aplusk, this is what I get: But, change the query to Ashton Kutcher Tweets, and this is what you get: This could be attributed to the fact that this feature will roll out gradually over the next few hours, but all other queries have been working fine for me thus far. Only a few thousand people will be indexed based on follower count and their volume of tweets: We’re not indexing ...

Twitter Lands in Bing
Technologizer — ... Microsoft’s strategy with its Bing search engine seems to be, in part, to be visibly different from Google. Which is certainly the case with a new feature the company launched on Tuesday: embedded tweets in results. Searches for someone’s name that include “twitter” or “tweet,” or searches for someone’s Twitter name, may produce results topped by a little module with that person’s two most recent tweets and a link to his or her Twitter feed. ...

A Bit Of Twitter In Bing
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... According to the post on Bing search blog this feature will roll out gradually, so you may not see it right away. That might explain the lil’ glitches I experienced whilst doing a search on our own, on first try only “@liveside” gave the results but after trying the other two search queries for several times those started to work too, they didn’t initially. Currently this only works if you have ...

Bing: Microsoft integrates Twitter into Bing search results
D' Technology Weblog — ... Microsoft is integrating more real time data (Tweets) into Bing search results, starting with a small set of prominent and prolific Twitterers from a variety of spheres. Now, when you search for folks names in association with Twitter, you’ll see their latest Tweets come up in real time on Bing’s search results. For example, if you type “Kara Swisher Twitter” or “Kara Swisher Tweets” or even “@karaswisher” as your search query, you’ll see ...

Bing And Tweet: Microsoft Adds Twitter Search To Bing
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — ... giant added some Twitter posts (or Tweets for those in the know) into Bing search results. The addition of Twitter search to the Bing search engine, however limited it may be, gives Microsoft a one-upper on the competition. In a blog post , Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft's Silicon Valley Search Technology Center, said the Bing team has been watching Twitter and the interest in realtime and immediate search to determine how to move forward. "Today we're unveiling an initial foray into integrating more realtime data into our search results, starting with some ...

Bing And Tweet: Microsoft Adds Twitter Search To Bing
The Channel Wire — ... giant added some Twitter posts (or Tweets for those in the know) into Bing search results. The addition of Twitter search to the Bing search engine, however limited it may be, gives Microsoft a one-upper on the competition. In a blog post , Sean Suchter, general manager of Microsoft's Silicon Valley Search Technology Center, said the Bing team has been watching Twitter and the interest in realtime and immediate search to determine how to move forward. "Today we're unveiling an initial foray into integrating more realtime data into our search results, starting with some ...

Bing Getting Realtime With Twitter
Geek In Disguise — ... – they’ve started to index Twitter, albeit a small corner of the chattersphere by indexing some prominent folks like Danny Sullivan and Kara Swisher. I can see the fallout now – ...

Bing Announces Twitter Integration, But Don’t Get Too Excited
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... In a move that appears to have more bark than bite, Bing has announced the integration of Twitter with its search results. Before you leap for joy, the announcement is a non-starter. ...

If the plan is to sneak up on Google very, very slowly, it’s working
GMSV — ... , announcing that Bing can now be used to find the latest tweets from a select group of high-profile Twitter users . “We’re not indexing all of Twitter at this time,” explained Microsoft search exec Sean Suchter, “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.” Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the semantic search technology Microsoft acquired when ...

Microsoft Takes A Shot At Real-Time Search
WebProNews Feed — ... On the Bing Community Search Blog, a post of that title announced, "[W]e'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." ...

Bing uses Twitter for easy search results
T3.com All — ... Center wrote on the Bing blog. He went on to say "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". Link: Bing blog (via ...

Bing uses Twitter for easy search results
T3.com News — ... 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".   Link: Bing blog (via The Register)  

What a difference a name makes: What if Live Search did Tweet searches?
Between the Lines — ... The Bing phenomenon continues and one day Microsoft’s search rebranding effort may make a great marketing case study. [image] Microsoft renamed its search Bing, added some neat logic, focused on important verticals. Microsoft has even snared a bit of search market share and has generated buzz unforeseen among tech’s peanut gallery. The latest example of Microsoft’s search buzz:  Bing has begun to surface Tweets . Talk about Web 2.0 combustion. Twitter plus Bing means ...

Bing Adds Tweets Answers But How Real Time Is It?
Search Engine Roundtable — ... about Bing adding Twitter results for some "prominent and prolific Twitterers." It works by searching for name tweet/twitter or the @username. So for example, ...

Bing Adds Twitter Content to Search Results
AppScout — ... new search engine. Now Bing users can search content posted by a handful of prominent Twitter users, including "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." Twitter content can be found by typing in queries such as "Twitter Al Gore" or "@algore." Results will be limited to a few thousand Twitter users at first, but Bing will be adding more in the coming months.

News Bits: Apple's iPorn Problems Get Worse
Contentinople: — ... (Nasdaq: MSFT) has introduced a new feature for its new Bing search engine that shows the Tweets of selected Twitterers on the search page. Included in this feature are Tweets from such luminaries as Al Gore, Kara Swisher... and Ryan Seacrest. So if, for instance, you were to Bing "Ryan Seacrest Twitter," you would see his last two Tweets, like "Kevin Jonas engaged? 33.33% of the nation's tween girls just got depressed ...

Microsoft takes shot across the bow at Google, adds some Twitter results to Bing
Obsessable News Feed — ... [Alley Insider] Bing Community [bing.com] ...

Bing Search Engine Starts Indexing Tweets
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... “There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created primarily by Twitter,” stated Microsoft Search Technology Center general manager Sean Suchter.  ”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.” ...

Miscrosoft on Twitter: No kidding!
The Microsoft Blog — ... " doesn't return any.) From the Bing Community Blog on Wednesday: 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. Unfortunately for me, searching " ...

Microsoft’s Bing plans ‘real-time’ Twitter updates
PR News: — ... At the moment though, it is thought Microsoft are only planning to include ‘Tweets’ from some of the most significant sources, according to this story here. ...

Bing Gets Desperate and Adds Twitter Messages to Search Results
Maximum PC all RSS Feed — ... “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,” wrote Microsoft search general manager Sean Sucher. These results will appear in a separate box alongside the normal search results within Bing. ...

Bing.com and Twitter Searches
Kokey Gadgets — Bing.com recently announced that they are “empowering” twitter (or the other way around) with twitter searches. According to the press release, Bing.com will be able to give users more useful results when you type “Something Twitter” in Bing.com’s search bar. Note: Something is a variable term, It could be Michael Jackson, hence “Michael Jackson Twitter”, or Will.I.Am, hence “Will.I.Am Twitter”. You can read more of this news from the official website. Here is the screenshot of Bing.com whose background image changes every after reload/refresh your browser. ...

Microsoft’s Bing Gets Social, Includes Tweets in Search Results
Xconomy — ... Twing? Beet? There may have to be a new word for the sound of Twitter results showing up on Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing. Launched just last month, Bing has begun indexing popular Twitter feeds. This means that a search of the names of a few thousand famous people will bring up their Twitter feed on the results page in addition to the more standard search results. In an announcement about the new feature on the Bing blog last week, Microsoft said the tweets will be indexed based on popularity and profligacy of tweeting, and include technologists ...

Interview with Micorosft Bing’s Rajesh Srivastava, Principle Group Manager, Bing
Search Engine Journal — ... on Facebook in which people can share or tag a Bing homepage image they like. This type of voting and commenting helps us better understand what our users like to see.  So these are a few ways we’re using social media to engage our users.  We’re also working with twitter to incorporate searches for tweets into Bing. See our recent blog post for more details. ...