Bing says "Hey, we have Twitter search too!"

Filed under: Microsoft, Search, Microblogging

With Google recently introducing its powerful new Twitter timeline search, Microsoft Bing's new real-time search features have been lost in all the hype. Bing's social search, announced last year, just got rolled into the main Bing.com product this week. Bing's social search doesn't have a cool timeline view like Google's, but it does work pretty well to see what's going on right now.

On top of the basic ability to find the most recent tweets on your search topic, Bing can also show you popular links people are sharing on Twitter. This feature works well if you're one of those people who uses the search bar to go to a specific website. Bing's blog post uses a pretty good example: let's say you put TMZ into your search bar. TMZ would obviously be the first result, but underneath that, you'd see links to the most popular TMZ stories on Twitter.

I still like Google's Twitter Search better, but Bing would have fallen way behind without implementing some kind of social results, especially when it comes to breaking news stories. Bing's Twitter Search isn't flashy, but that's okay. It looks like the idea this time wasn't to outdo Google, it was just to keep pace with them. That doesn't mean Bing won't get more ambitious with social search in the future, though.

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