Microsoft formerly announced today their partnership with Twitter to provide real-time tweet streams to their search engine Bing. Microsoft’s President of the Online Services Group, Qi Lu made the announcement at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, CA earlier today. The deal has been rumored for some time now. The Bing Twitter service is now live and you can access it here. When you land on the Bing Twitter page you’ll see a familiar tag cloud that includes the hottest topics on Twitter right now (shown below).
As was highlighted in the presentation today, the big element of this new partnership is the ability Bing now has to deliver real-time information to your search results via Twitter. As demonstrated to the crowd in San Francisco today, this new service is more than just giving users a live stream of tweets (which it does as well) – but also giving users the ‘best matches’ to their real-time search results. The Bing Twitter service does de-duping to eliminate repeat tweets, and delivers its results based on quality using relevance. As an example, they will rank results based on how many followers a user may have as well as the content of their posts.
This is one of the first majors moves in the real-time search realm by an emerging market leader. Its expected that Google will also be launching their real-time tweet stream search engine shortly was well.
Today Microsoft also announced a deal with Facebook for Bing search results as well. Nothing was shared other then there is a deal between the two services and information would be coming out in the future.
Check out Twitter’s blog and Bing’s blog on the news.
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i am using both Bing and Google and i think both search engines give relevant search results. i would still prefer Google though, because it gives a little bit more relevant search results than Bing.