July 3, 2009

Posted by: Collabo

Category: General, Twitter

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Bing Dabbles in Real-Time Search via Twitter

If you haven’t been living under a rock recently you are well aware of Microsoft’s latest foray into the search market with Bing. The latest buzz word in Web search is “real-time” lead by the constant flow of 140 character posts from the Twitter platform. Many companies have been attempting to harness this information in the form of real-time search engines. Some recent contenders include Topsy, OneRiot, CrowdEye, and now Bing.

Bing’s real-time search experiment as of right now is only indexing results for popular tweeters. It’s still unclear on how they plan on delivering these results as my own tests have been varied. For example if I search for “Al Gore” on Bing I do not see anything related to Twitter. If I search “Al Gore Twitter” I see some results at the bottom of the page. However if I search “@algore” the Twitter results are right at the top.

I tried a second test with “TechCrunch” and this time I do see tweets at the bottom of the page. “TechCrunch Twitter” delivers the results at the top of the page, as does “@techcrunch“.

Search heavyweight Google as of yet has not launched any products to index Twitter content (outside of user pages), but rumors of a Google microblogging search engine have been surfacing.

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May 29, 2009

Posted by: Collabo

Category: General

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Bing, Another Drop in the Bucket for Microsoft?

“Bing!” No I’m not mocking Matthew Perry’s fictional character Chandler Bing from the sitcom Friends, but rather I’m mocking Microsoft’s latest attempt at a search engine, Bing, which was unveiled Thursday at D7, the All Things Digital conference in San Diego. Actually, I’m not mocking anything, Bing actually looks impressive. The moment may have arrived where one can use ‘Microsoft’ and ’search engine’ in the same sentence without being ridiculed.
 
It’s been a long time coming that Microsoft roll out a search engine that people might actually take interest in. However, Microsoft touts Bing as much more than a search engine, rather a ‘decision engine’. The assertion is that while current search models do well at answering simple questions such as ”What’s the capital of Botswana?,” a decision engine helps solve problems like, ”Where should we go for dinner tonight?” Bing claims to help you “overcome search overload and find the best choice faster.”
 
While some can’t help but poke fun at the name, and others are (lightheartedly) outraged because it actually is their name, one year from now if you catch yourself saying “Bing it,” you’ll know that Microsoft has finally done it, and Bill Gates can chalk one up for the home team.
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