Microsoft's Bing Starts Indexing Some Tweets

Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) said Wednesday that its relaunched Bing search engine would incorporate some Tweets in its search results—becoming the first major search engine to do so. In a post on the Bing community blog, Microsoft’s Sean Suchter said that starting later today the company would index Tweets from a select group of people in both the “search technology and business sphere” and also from those with “more general consumer appeal.” When Microsoft relaunched Live Search as Bing, it said it was looking into ways to incorporate Tweets in the user experience—although it had given no indication that it was in much of a rush, saying that there were many ways to define what “real-time” results actually entailed. Since then, however, Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) has given signs that it is on the verge of launching some sort of Twitter search offering of its own. In its announcement, Microsoft emphasized that it was not indexing all of ... (link)