Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too by Caroline McCarthy and Tom Krazit, Webware (Oct 21)
I suppose this was inevitable. Both Bing and Google are going to be indexing Tweets. Bing has started with a new Twitter search, and Google will be receiving a data feed from Twitter. Don't know yet what it will look like.
"How will it be presented? Google isn't ready to talk about that yet in detail, but Wright said tweets would be presented within regular search results. "Relevancy is paramount," Menzel said, but it's also tricky: sometimes you might want the result from the guy with only 30 followers who knows what's happening on a given street corner, sometimes you might want the industry expert's quick take on a product announcement."
Next step may be including Facebook.
Bing's display of tweets is described in Hands-on with Twitterized Bing
"Bing has the opportunity to leverage its well-developed search engine chops to address this--not only will public tweets will show up in search results, Bing can rank results based on relevance of the post, the popularity of the writer, and other, more complex factors."
This is a new twitter search engine - not part of the web search. At present www.bing.com/twitter only works in the US.
Danny Sullivan provides a very complete description of Bing Twitter Search - Up Close With Bing’s Twitter Search Engine
Posted by Gwen at October 22, 2009 12:34 PM