RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
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RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
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Re: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
#2Microsoft unveils Bing Twitter search today and Google's hurried response is a blog post about how they've "reached an agreement" to include tweets in their search results. Ouch.
Microsoft still has some fight in it yet, folks! It's not often that other companies are scrambling to keep up with them these days.
Re: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
#3Microsoft unveils Bing Twitter search today and Google's hurried response is a blog post about how they've "reached an agreement" to include tweets in their search results. Ouch. Microsoft still has some fight in it yet, folks! It's not often that other companies are scrambling to keep up with them these days.
I doubt this battle will be settled (or even affected) by the fact that MS was first to market with this feature.
Who has the better integration and implementation is far more interesting.
Re: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
#4In related news: Google jumps shark, announces vaporware.
Re: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
#5Microsoft unveils Bing Twitter search today and Google's hurried response is a blog post about how they've "reached an agreement" to include tweets in their search results. Ouch. Microsoft still has some fight in it yet, folks! It's not often that other companies are scrambling to keep up with them these days.
Agreed. This looks like an embarrassingly reactive move.
Re: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
#6Microsoft unveils Bing Twitter search today and Google's hurried response is a blog post about how they've "reached an agreement" to include tweets in their search results. Ouch. Microsoft still has some fight in it yet, folks! It's not often that other companies are scrambling to keep up with them these days.
Perhaps it's more telling that Bing thought they had one up on Google, only to find out that Google was already there.
Re: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
#7Microsoft unveils Bing Twitter search today and Google's hurried response is a blog post about how they've "reached an agreement" to include tweets in their search results. Ouch. Microsoft still has some fight in it yet, folks! It's not often that other companies are scrambling to keep up with them these days.
Google wasn't the first search engine, either.
Re: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
#8Microsoft unveils Bing Twitter search today and Google's hurried response is a blog post about how they've "reached an agreement" to include tweets in their search results. Ouch. Microsoft still has some fight in it yet, folks! It's not often that other companies are scrambling to keep up with them these days.
Perhaps it's more telling that Bing thought they had one up on Google, only to find out that Google was already there.
That's an interesting way to spin it in Google's favor, but:
1) When MS signed a non-exclusive agreement with Twitter, they must have been 99% sure that Google would be in on the Twitter action as well (i.e. I doubt they ever thought they were one up on Google), and
2) The point is that Google is not already there. All they have to show for themselves is an agreement so far. (MS has http://www.bing.com/twitter up and running already.)
Being first to market isn't everything, but I still think this is a noteworthy exception to the norm of recent years.
Re: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
#9Microsoft unveils Bing Twitter search today and Google's hurried response is a blog post about how they've "reached an agreement" to include tweets in their search results. Ouch. Microsoft still has some fight in it yet, folks! It's not often that other companies are scrambling to keep up with them these days.
I think only the announcement is hurried, I'm sure this has been in the works longer.
The first company to release the feature won't matter much in the end, it's all about implementation and market share..
So I wouldn't call it "scrambling", more just a "why yes, we've thought of this too, and we're working on it"..
Re: RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my
#10Microsoft unveils Bing Twitter search today and Google's hurried response is a blog post about how they've "reached an agreement" to include tweets in their search results. Ouch. Microsoft still has some fight in it yet, folks! It's not often that other companies are scrambling to keep up with them these days.
>> "scrambling to keep up with them these days."
huh? Both announced they were going to use twitter data :/
It all depends who presents that information in a useful way - my money is on google reading their blog post. I hardly think google are 'scrambling to keep up with them'.