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Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook-Bing
- axod 17y agoI'm not sure I want search results to be littered with tweets. Am I the only one? How do you apply page rank/relevance etc to 140 chars?
- ccollins 17y agoRelevance for tweets / status updates is pretty simple: Newer = more relevant. For example: http://www.google.com/search?q=san+francisco+halloween http://www.google.com/search?q=san+francisco+halloween gives me a bunch of halloween stores http://twitter.com/#search?q=san%20francisco%20halloween http://twitter.com/#search?q=san%20francisco%20halloween gives me a bunch of events (much more useful for me!)
- axod 17y agoIf those sort of tweets get into search results simply based on "newest", you can be sure it'll be used extensively by marketers trying to spam their way into search listings.
- ubernostrum 17y agoFWIW, Twitter seems to be on top of the arms race right now. A little while back I was getting 3-4 spam followers/@-replies a day; over the past few weeks, though, I've had exactly two.
- jrockway 17y agoI am getting these almost every day now. Annoying at first, now I am considering using some other service. Twitter is too popular and popular services eventually become shit.
- zaidf 17y agoThat is what the engineers get paid to do:)
- fizx 17y ago> I'm not sure I want search results to be littered with tweets. Granted. I hope they find balance, and imagine they'll AB test to see what users want. > How do you apply page rank/relevance etc to 140 chars? Some combination of freshness, quantity of retweets, pagerank of any linked pages, bit.ly stats on links, historic tweet quality of the user, similarity to trending topics, follower count of user, follower/followee ratio, incoming links to the page from blogs, etc, etc, etc.
- senthil_rajasek 17y agoretweets are one way to quantify relevance. "real people" are not going to retweet something unless they find it meaningful.
- riffer 17y agoI like the idea, but what's going to stop a bot from re-tweeting?
- axod 17y agoDisagree. As I said a week or so ago. Retweeting is often the same as an email asking you to forward it to 100 friends to get good luck. I don't think that makes for very good measurement of what is important and what isn't.
- chaostheory 17y agoBoth are non-exclusive... Couldn't someone else do the same partnership or am I missing something?
- leej 17y agoyep. google is too in talks with twitter.
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- sachinag 17y agoPer @ev: http://www.bing.com/twitter http://www.bing.com/twitter
- zaatar 17y agoSee also: http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/10/21/bing-is-bringing-twitter-search-to-you.aspx http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/10/2...
- unalone 17y agoIt's pretty slow compared to Twitter's own search. I'm seeing 9 minute index times.
- albertsun 17y agoEwww. I'm sorry, but that page is so ugly my hand impulsively closed it before I could even begin to consider the content.
- andreyf 17y agoYeah, at first glance, it looks like a tag cloud with a bunch of adsense underneath. Funny how we interpret visual patterns...
- ilyak 17y agoSearchable twitter/facebook? Expect a tide of spam soon.
- tonystubblebine 17y agoOne thing to keep in mind about the size of Facebook's contribution is that not all of their status updates are public. Kara says they do 40M updates per day, but I can't imagine that very many of those are public.
- sridhar_iyer 17y agothis is trying to solve a problem that does not exist. People use search for definitive answers to their questions.. tweets hardly fit the bill.
- adamBA 17y agoummm is this twitters first revenue making step???? am i really far off or has everyone overlooked this? or are they going to give it away from free because their more concerned about growing the community rather than making $$$
- pierrefar 17y agoI'm getting an error message: "Twitter search results are currently unavailable." Fail Whale on Bing?