Comments on: Bing brings out the tweets

Microsoft is adding Twitter feeds of a select group of prominent users to Bing search results for those individuals, embracing the microblogging service more directly than rivals.

[lonestarState]

Bing was beat at it's own game with combining Twitter results along with Bing results @ www.earthoid.com Earthoid.com had the feature 2 weeks ago if not longer.

[slecalvez]

Oh yeah and since verybody knows Earthoid.com... Who cares!

[ca5ter]

I sure hope someone comes up with an idea to run Tweets across my forehead.

[GKrynen]

LED or LCD display built into a cap fed via bluetooth from Twitter app on cellphone. Or bio chem tattoo with micro wire bluetooth feed from same cell phone right below your skin.

[solitare_pax]

So when will Bing add searches of Google and Yahoo?

[jessiethe3rd]

Bing... and cue the haters!

[Dan7637]

twitter is annoying and that "first decision engine" ***- thats the stupidest crap i ever heard

[sammydolla]

Dude I love Bing...its my default and I completely agree with you. The whole decision engine thing is meaningless to so many people...plus who wants a website to make decisions for them?

[peludeo]

I only bing now. It's great.

[eswinson]

I like twitter, I use it a lot, but I don't want a bunch of mindless tweets poisoning my search results.

[luc_vdv]

Wouldn't it have been a better idea to get regular searches right first?

As a developer, I found out long ago that the best way to find information related to a programming task in Microsoft's MSDN online documentation is through Google, and it's still the same today. The built-in search and Live Search (now aka Bing) are a waste of time.

Another example: in their current tour, U2 are using a giant round display manufatured by Barco. Just try the search string "barco u2": Google immediately gets it right, but all Bing comes up with is "news" about U2's previous tour in 2005 (where they also used a barco-manufactured display, but not the one I was looking for yesterday).

These examples aren't hand picked for the occasion, they're typical for the performance of Live Search and now Bing.

[chill75]

Both search engines returned proper results for me.

Bing: http://www.barco.com/events/en/pressreleases/show.asp?index=1490 (first result)

Google: http://www.barco.com/events/en/references/u2/ (first result)

[Police_States_of_America]

if we stop talking about it, it will go away. please no more bing stories, no one cares