It’s now official. As rumors were saying, Twitter opened its firehose to Bing, Microsoft’s search engine that launched a few months ago. No announcement with Google (yet), which means Bing is the first search engine to have access to Twitter real-time feed.
To test the product, go to http://bing.com/twitter, and enter your query, or choose one of the hot topic (in a tag cloud).
With this new product, Bing gets a small advantage over Google, and also becomes a competitor of Tweetmeme, as they provide top shared links in their results (which adds relevancy to recency). Those top shared links are based on quality of the tweet (we would say influence of the Twitter user), number of retweets, etc…
Nick Halstead, Tweetmeme Founder and CEO, just tweeted a comparison between both sites (unfortunately Twitter is down at the moment…)
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i have been using the BING search engine for a couple of weeks. it seems to be as good as Google but for some reason i would still want to stick with Google search engine ,-
i am a user of Microsofts BING search engine and it is as good as google for static webpage search. for searching blogs, i think google gives more relevant search results compared bing.