Bing slips into bed with Twitter

Why do i have to have a title?

"Little one says 'roll over'"

'Cos I've found the lube.

desperate attempt?

or just moving with the (social networking) times?

if businesses can hijack every type of social networking site in an attempt to advertise/promote products, then why not enable them is search engines?

is a search engine just for searching websites?

thoughts....

One wonders

who brought the Vaseline!

Analysis

Detailed analysis seems to indicate that this idea came in a dream to a junior member of the Microsoft "Clutching at straws" department.

If I wanted to know when/if my favourite celebrity was having a dump then I wouldn't turn to Bing, I'd simply kill myself immediately.

Compare the Search Engines.com

I've got it all figured out, using meerkats and everything.

It has taken me six months of not leaving the house or watching television but I think I could pull it off.

The first meerkat says to the second meerkat "Bing is pointless posturing" and the other one says "But it indexes Twitter."

The first one says "Ah yes but I'm going to nobble them by Tweeting about how rubbish Bing is. Easy eh?"

And the second one could reply "Simples".

Ah, the desperate MS efforts...

... to try and appear to be relevant. Everyone knows they are still around *only* because they bribe the OEMs into shipping only windows machines.

@ Richard 69: "is a search engine just for searching websites?" oh c'mon. The major search engines are now all close to useless because on any vaguely popular subject they will return 5 pages of half-arsed blog posts _before_ the relevant sites. Hey I know, let's add twitter messages, what could possibly go wrong? Why not add MSN (or live whatever) traffic too?

Search Overload?

ok.. in the States, M$'s Bing campaign is all about "search overload" and how Bing is a less of a search engine, and more of a "decision" engine.. whatever the hell that means...

Now they are adding Twitter to search results? uhm... Yes.. I consider Twitter an important tool for making decisions.

@ Charles Calthrop

"usually if I want to find out online why ten ambulances are racing down a road"

Why would you even think of doing that is way beyond my poor imagination. You must have far, far too much time in your hands. But if you really want to find out in near real time, you can tune in to the police frequencies. Of course that's not actually permitted, but if you don't interfere who's gonna find out? And that way you will have the real info, not some wild ramblings by attention-craving webwhores. In any given situation where 10 ambulances race down a street, I can already tell you what you'll find on Twitter:

"OMG a plane crashed on $LOCAL_BIG_BUILDING" =40%

"OMG a gang is shooting pregnant women in front of Wall-Mart": 30%

"OMG they discovered a nest of flu-infected zombie swines in the sewers and the "pandemic" is spreading": 30%

Real explanation ("A bus missed a turn and 10 people have light bruises. One might even suffer from nosebleed."): 0%

Yeah, that's a "good start", as you say. If it was a start, that is. It's more like a good step further the "please wave your hands in panic and shout "we're all gonna die" at the slightest evidence that something not 100% good might have happened" road. Good ol'US.

Where's the story in this ?

Two non-entities snuggle up to each other in a vain attempt to become relevant.

I can't even work out which one is "mummy" in this scenario...