What the Bing & Google Twitter Search really means for you
There is no denying it – Twitter is big! At the end of October, both Microsoft and Google made separate announcements that they would be incorporating live Twitter streams into their search engine results. This means that both Bing and Google would offer ways for web users to search within the Twitter annals just as they would the World Wide Web. Twitter already has its own search engine (search.twitter.com) but this new addition is absolutely huge for the social networking platform as well as these companies.
So, what does this actually mean to everyone else? When two of the most influential web giants decide to incorporate social networking into their search engines, it gives web users an advantage. Not only will the usual web results be combined with news, images, and other searches, information will also be available from wherever it is being produced!
Another way of looking at including social networking information into the major search engines is that whatever you post as a member is no longer confined to the particular social network in which you published it. This means that a lot more people than you realize may be watching what your tweeting. While this is great for those that want to self-promote, it can have repercussions for others. Just remember to try and not say something unsavory- as it may come back to bite you later!
The interesting aspect of both Bing and Google integrating Twitter’s micro-blogging into their respective search engine results is that both claim to offer real-time searches. This means that items you’ve tweeted about within the last hour would likely become visible online, for all to see, much faster than it is now. If you want to spread the word about something, this is quite exhilarating!
The possibility of a real-time Twitter search offered by Bing and Google might step on the toes of some of the up-and-coming real-time search engines out there. Such engines actually rely on Twitter, and other social sites, for their content and results. If Bing and Google are successful, these search engines may go the way of the dinosaurs. If they don’t want to face certain extinction, they’ll pursue higher levels of creativity and innovation.
The announcement of the Twitter integration of both Bing and Google brings about another question. Will Google eventually get access to FaceBook’s stream of updates? As Microsoft and Google are competitors of sorts, Microsoft has a leg up in that it already has a deal with FaceBook, though it is not exclusive.
While the collaboration between Twitter and two of the largest search engines may be quite exciting, there will be some limitations, especially at first. For a pure search, you may still be better off using Twitter’s own search engine when you want to find something within the Twitter streams specifically. Bing and Google may or may not refine their searches to dig deep within the Twitter tweets, though we can’t comment until we see it in action and test it out.
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This is really good information to have, I never thought of the ramifications regarding the twitter searches. I will definetly have to clean up my twitter stream.
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Watch what you tweet about twepple, it could land you in a search.