A hot topic that has been getting some attention lately is around one of the touted features of Bing, its Twitter search capability. Microsoft has been bragging that Bing is capable of indexing Twitter updates in real time. However, Bing’s Twitter search capability may have been a bit overblown by the press. Recently, several sites ran stories declaring that Microsoft’s latest search engine iteration, Bing has “one upped” Google to the market with the capability to index tweets. However, according to PC World, these claims may be too good to be true. According to Microsoft, Bing only indexes tweets from a small pool of “prominent and prolific Twitterers.” In other words, the search functionality does not work on obscure and unknown posters. It is curious as to why Microsoft decided to pool from a small list of posters as... [read full story]
