Microsoft Takes A Shot At Real-Time Search

Real-time search may (together with semantic and/or mobile search) be the next big thing; with some individuals putting out scores of public messages per day, we need a way to organize them.  And now, Microsoft's taken a step in the right direction by "bringing a bit of Twitter to Bing." On the Bing Community Search Blog , a post of that title announced, "[W]e're unveiling an initial foray into integrating more real time data into our search results, starting with some of the more prominent and prolific Twitterers from a variety of spheres." The post then continued, "[W]hen you search for these folks [ sic ] names in association with Twitter, you'll see their latest Tweets come up in real time on Bing's search results." Mind you, the technology's not perfect; Wil Wheaton 's most recent tweet is actually not about tacos, and since it is more than seven hours old, it's a little hard to understand how Bing's missed it. There are also the ... (link)