Bing adds Twitter to search results

Bing adds Twitter to search results 1:01PM, Thursday 2nd July 2009 Microsoft has started to add Twitter posts to Bing search results after being drawn to the micro-blogging site's ability to instantly reflect developing topics and public sentiment. In a blog post, Sean Suchter, General Manager of Microsoft's Silicon Valley Search Technology Center, said: "There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been crated primarily by Twitter." "We've been watching this phenomenon with great interest, and listening carefully to what consumers really want in this space. We're not indexing all of Twitter at this time... just a small set of prominent and prolific... [read full story]                    

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