Microsoft is definitely enjoying Bing, publicity, positive feedback and now it puts in Twitter results. Let me be more specific, the search now includes Tweets in results, meaning there is some sort of real time-ness coming to it. The feature is not out fully but Microsoft is testing it with a few Twitterers presently and search results will be updated every minute. However Microsoft is quite sanely not taking the task to crawl past every Tweet sent and will focus only on accounts that are considered important.
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[...] When I say Bing, it says all about Microsoft’s hard work at being successful in the search market. Today the search engine launched BingTweets in collaboration with Federated Media. This would combine Bing search with Twitter Search letting users browse across the results for search and at the same time view results in real time. The real time-ness will prove useful if one is searching for something happening at the moment. The interface, though crowded appears neat as each results are framed on top the blue background. However seeing the two side by side would appear pretty over crowded, but given the functionality it adds, it’s quite digestible. The step is not the first that Microsoft has taken to integrate Twitter with Bing as it had earlier integrated Twitter in the search results. [...]