It is interesting to speculate how this deal will affect the results of the Bing search engine. The article mentions changes to Facebook by allowing users to set options for what information of theirs is public. So I can see this using people's names, schools, colleges, etc to increase the search results in Bing.
I'm not quite sure how I see this being used for Twitter. Twitter has their own search right now at http://search.twitter.com/. I tried this out, by searching a few keywords. It gives you twitters updates where the keyword shows up, but I am not seeing how this will help me find useful information or research topics. Other sites like LinkedIn and Orkut are likely to jump on board with search engine as well. Maybe search engines will change to allow people to filter results by the source that the information comes from. For this I mean, static pages, major news sites, social networking sites, etc. Taking search engines to this level would allow users like me to filter out extraneous search results.
Chuck
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You bring up a valid point concerning the need to filter results. If this deal goes through it is likely that search results could be so cluttered that a filter would be absolutely vital if it were to remain a useful tool. And if twitter already has it's own search engine I'm not really sure why they would want/need another. This just seems like overkill to me.
ReplyDeleteTwitter's internal search engine is inefficient and one of the advantages of integrating tweets into Bing's search results is that Bing can provide much better filtering. Bing will find and present most interesting and hot trending links by implementing tweets' ranking and arranging results in different ways. For example, users can change ordering to "best match" or click on "see more tweets about ..." to see a full page of tweets.
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