Bing’s Real-Time Web Search
20 Jul 2009
Microsoft is making a lot of moves lately with the launch of Bing, their new “decision engine.” Personally, I was not overly impressed or excited about Bing. It was visually aethstetic, and the results seemed about the same as Google. There was not enough of a difference to make me stop “Googling” and start “Binging.”
End of discussion. Continue with normal life using Google maps, search, and documents etc.
But today, I saw this: http://www.BingTweets.com and I realized the possibilities.
Your web searches are more powerful because you are able to cross reference them with real time results from Twitter. Your Twitter searches become more powerful because you have a web search that allows you to dive deeper into the topic. Things like deciding where to eat, or finding the latest news on a Twitter topic are incredibly simplified using Bing Tweets.
Average search process to find mexican restaurant in Boulder using Google:
Search “Mexican Food in…
BrandonSings:
Room_214:
Hello_BenHere:
jo_rogel:
runquatro:
ElyseHeslin:
JamesOClark:
JasonCormier:
peterahall:
BenCastelli: