Twitter, Google and Bing - How Search Engines are Going Real-Time

7 Points

When we announced a while back that search engine giants Google and Bing had both sealed deals with microblogging platform Twitter to deliver real-time search results from the microblogging platform, there was much ballyhooing about which search engine would better take advantage of Twitter's real-time nature, how real-time search results should be weighed against qualitative search results, and so on. In general, we were left fairly eager to see how both Google and Bing would take advantage of the new opportunity.

Bing VS Google - Who'll Win in the Battle to Index Twitter?

-17 Points

Let the battle to index Twitter begin.

Twitter, the microblogging platform that's quickly reshaping how the world thinks about communicating, announced this week in two separate blog posts (@google Nice and Bing Goes the Dynamite) that they've finished negotiating deals with both Microsoft and Google to index Twitter's massive body of status updates. It's going to be a monumental task for either Bing or Google - but whoever comes out on top stands to reap significant rewards in terms of gaining access to information in real-time, access that both search engines are...