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BingTweets.com is back

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I missed this first time out….more cool work from the Bing team to fuse together Bing and Twitter to give you real-time content on a search. Here’s how the team explain it on their blog

 

Many people share their thoughts on Twitter, and search engines don’t currently do a great job of capturing that real-time content. We designed Bing to help you make faster, more informed decisions, and, since people often turn to real-time content to help them make decisions, BingTweets was a logical next step.

For example, when Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince comes out tomorrow, you may want to scan the official reviews, local theater listing, AND the latest Tweets on the movie to help you decide whether to rush to see it. With BingTweets, you can cover all that ground in one place.

 

Frankly, I love the way we’re doing some realtime innovation here and I can tell you lots of people I know in Microsoft are in awe of the speed these guys and girls are cranking stuff out. I mean, it’s almost umm….Google like. Seriously, that’s a compliment as in the past you’d see all these great ideas fly around internally and then see Google or someone else actually execute on them….and when we finally did we’d just be seen as a slow copycat.

I don’t know what they’re drinking over there in Bing towers but order them up a truck load more of it. In fact pipe it to a few other buildings :)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    July 14, 2009
    "...are in awe of the speed these guys are cranking stuff out" I am a woman programmer who started programming in 1978. Back then, there were no gender differences in programming. It's interesting that over time, as woman became more mainstreamed career-wise, that this Boys Club thing developed in the software industry. I think it's because Bill Gates appeared on the scene and had such a huge impact. The geek thing didn't exist in the old days, either. I never even heard that word until the 90's when it became a sitcom character. I was dismayed at the direction the public perception of programmers was going. Software development was more fun when it wasn't perceived by the public and by the industry itself as a Boys Club of Geeks. It used to be all about the work and the machinery, not image.   :-)

  • Anonymous
    July 14, 2009
    TerryC - I used guys here in a catch all way to mean guy and girls but you're right to point it out. off to change it :)