yes, but if you choose to make your twitter & facebook statuses 'public' then anyone can find them anyway.
Paul Stamatiou
· 1 month ago
Agreed - I'm fine with it linking to just my profile.. but specific tweets/etc might be a bit much. Ah well, that's the internets for you. We have come to understand that slowly everything will be searchable.
After this deal it is the best thing ever happened to Microsoft. Though I made Bing my homepage long ago, I used the Google search box in my Safari browser. Now, for quick status check I'll use Bing. Trust me, U are going to enjoy this war between M$ n GOOG for long. Our big brother is in no mood to bow down to this $200 billion guerilla so easily.
Don't bring logic and fact to this conversation... Who wants a tinfoil hat?
dez
· 1 month ago
I guess I don't really mind this. Being that I choose to make my twitter profile public (so it's already searchable) and I've chosen the facebook options to make my status/etc available to everyone. If I don't like it I can change those.
However if the search parameters delve into private updates then I'll have a problem.
Tal Baron
· 1 month ago
I wonder how Google Feels about this...
jones19876
· 1 month ago
I'd feel like I was just beaten to the punch by a toothless hooker, dunno about them.
aidilsharizaq
· 1 month ago
that is goin to b huge!
brynmorgan
· 1 month ago
Real Time Meets Old Time....
mikesouthby
· 1 month ago
Hmmm, this sounds a little strange, as others have said I don't want my updates appearing in search results unless I expressively agree to it. Twitter and Facebook would presumably need to change their end user agreements so you had to agree to such things. One to watch, this could be a big step into the unknown...
Wow, this could either be HUGE, or just really annoying!
kalimckibben
· 1 month ago
"Thus, sources said, not all Facebook updates will be included in the real-time feed to be searched by Bing, but only those its users choose to make available to the wider public. Facebook will provide users with a numbers of new tools to do so."
Yeah, maybe so...but we are talking about Microsoft.
ErikaLehmann
· 1 month ago
Don't some tweets already show up in google? What's the difference? Facebook status would be a bit different to me, but I suppose it's all in how you use the services.
your status messages already are on a search engine... search.twitter.com
Mondi
· 1 month ago
That's a specific Twitter search engine, though. That's not much different from using Twitter's own search bar.
This would be like...dare I say? Googling your name and instead of a link to your Twitter page, your update comes up. That's a little different.
advancedbourland
· 1 month ago
That already happens. Plenty of statuses come up in results. It looks like they are just making it easier for it to happen. Poor Dave is copy and pasting like crazy. The black helicopters aren't coming to get anyone, just make sure your privacy settings are the way you want them to be. You should have done this already anyway, because, again... your stuff is already in search engines.
Lumi
· 1 month ago
Yeah... privacy destruction.. this will aid future usurpers to the real-time microblogging thrones who don't subject their community to it
Trey Copeland
· 1 month ago
Eventually everything will be searchable on the Internet anyway.
ssaadahmed
· 1 month ago
I am sure no one likes there status updates in a search engine... at least not without their permission. But this might just be one of the first smart moves by Bing to reach out to a bigger audience while competing with Google. If they cant beat Google in technology, they would try to have other reasons for people to search on Bing especially bc there arent any great social media search engines out there yet.
DUDE SHUT UP! we got it you must work at FaceBook... I think everyone gets they can change their settings.. I think people are just talking and wondering about where this will lead.... SO SHUT UP!
EricVP
· 1 month ago
I am not sure why anoyone would expect their tweets not to be searchable in a serach engine. Twitter is not like e-maill where you have a reasonable expectation of privacy. It is a completely open forum. Any concept of privacy is obliterated by Twitter's structure and capabiliteis.
You can set whatever privacy policay you want, all it takes is one person who follows you to retweet in amy way for that to not work.
Jimmy
· 1 month ago
This is huge and once people see it in action they will realize it's not going to be annoying but in fact kickass.
Mondi
· 1 month ago
It seems like more work - or a rip off of other applications. I mean, I'd have to search for all of my friend's names, one by one, correct? Why wouldn't I just log in to facebook or Twitter then?
I suppose it would be good for prospective employers? But a status update may not be enough to tell you what you want to know.
Any thoughts on how this will be great? I'm not trying to sound horrid, I'm just curious if there's something huge I'm missing.
CarlPhelps
· 1 month ago
It wouldn't be about whose tweet and status update it is, its about what is in the content of the tweet or facebook status. For example, if you are doing a bing search for XYZ Movie, you would get a tweet or status update about XYZ Movie which would (hopefully) help you find out whatever information you are looking for.
Mondi
· 1 month ago
Ah, thank you Carl, I appreciate the response.
sherryosborne
· 1 month ago
For something like that I can see it being somewhat useful - "oh look three people on Twitter thought that XYZ Movie rocked, I'll give it a shot tonight".
But I wonder if it will end up getting in the way of real info. Say I want to find info about H1N1. I want real info not ten thousand people tweeting "omg I think I have H1N1" and so on. It just seems like it will be a lot of extra crap to wade through, you know? I'd be more interested if there was an option to search web OR tweets OR Facebook but not all at once.
Name
· 1 month ago
Why do they have to 'ink a deal' - can't they just use API???
Dave Nattriss
· 1 month ago
Sure, but there isn't a public search API for Facebook as yet.
Name
· 1 month ago
Thanks Dave. I was thinking of more of a 'if you're logged into Bing you can see your twitter & facebook' stream kind of thing. Dunno. I usually search for tweets on twitter. What am I missing? :P
Mondi
· 1 month ago
This is a HORRIBLE idea. Pay attention Microsoft Marketers, Facebook, and Twitter, you're about to pull a New Coke.
I don't want to make my Twitter account private - I don't care if people search me, then take the initiative to go out there and look at my Twitter page, but I don't want every update I make the first thing on the search.
What's the point in having a Twitter or Facebook then? Why don't we all just use one, giant, ridiculous social media site instead? That's what this feels like to me.
Brad Phillips
· 1 month ago
"Why don't we all just use one, giant, ridiculous social media site instead?"
Facebook?
Sasha H. Muradali
· 1 month ago
...b/c Twitter won't sell to FB, thus FB bought Friend Feed to get similar technology.
Wait until Google Wave goes public, then the changes will start popping up like wildfire.
john
· 1 month ago
This will be SPAM 3.0.
Think about it. Have a 1000 twitter accounts (super cheap and simple to do) all using twitterfeed to auto post tweets every 30 minutes about different niches. Now, instead of only twitter search, they will appear in bing. Viola! Instant traffic!
Would be even worse for facebook because facebook statuses since they are less known for stream noise/spam.
Don't think it won't happen. As fast as one account gets banned, another will replace it.
Brad
· 1 month ago
This is my thought too. There's a lot of complaints here about privacy (not invalid complaints) but I think the real problem here will be all the garbage this creates.
How will they even optimize 140 characters anyway?
sazo
· 1 month ago
you seem 2 b good.will u b my friend?
stevesidea
· 1 month ago
Am I the only one who wants FEWER search results, not more?
r0cketman22
· 1 month ago
Bing commercial?
stevesidea
· 1 month ago
No. I was thinking this would just return more results than anyone would really want or find useful.
sherryosborne
· 1 month ago
No you're absolutely not. That's just what I was thinking as well. Sometimes a search for a topic brings up enough crap to browse through, all I need is a bunch of strangers' tweets in there too.
As I wrote in a comment above, if I want to research a topic like H1N1 then I want proper results, not 10,000 people who recently tweeted "omg I think I have H1N1" - not useful at ALL.
skeptic
· 1 month ago
Cool! Now Bing results can turn up lots of stupid brain farts! yay!
Sasha H. Muradali
· 1 month ago
lol, nice :)
miketempleton
· 1 month ago
So, this should be like http://www.bingtweets.com, eh? I actually think the idea is pretty interesting. On Bing Tweets they compare traditional results alongside the tweets and it gives you two different pictures: one is historical (search) and the other is real-time (tweets).
ricky yun
· 1 month ago
In fact,I haven't heart bing before reading this...bing and google,which one is better?
Brad Phillips
· 1 month ago
Bing
d3bruts1d
· 1 month ago
Google
Chris Stewart
· 1 month ago
Since I'm sitting in the Microsoft Lounge and I might be beaten if I give the wrong answer... Google. HA
Jeremy the lucky guy in AZ
· 1 month ago
this will be a great move for bing to partner with the other great online tools
Jeremy the lucky guy in AZ
· 1 month ago
this is a big move for bing...could be a good tool for business
WebpageLottery
· 1 month ago
I don't think this is a good idea. I mean facebook and twitter can be just trends for now. Imaging if Bing shows up updates for myspace now.
Nathan Driskell
· 1 month ago
The goal of Twitter is to broadcast information to anyone in the world that wants to read it. Searching tweets in a search engine just makes sense.
It's the Facebook angle people should be concerned about, not Twitter, as Facebook requires mutual consent on both ends of every personal connection made. Facebook is an explicitly private network, while Twitter is explicitly public.
Guess what? I can search any keyword on Twitter and find every tweet you ever sent containing that keyword. If this is news to any of you, you really shouldn't be using Twitter in the first place.
richrecruiter
· 1 month ago
Fantastic. Now my lunch updates will show up on Bing.
d3bruts1d
· 1 month ago
And why should I care?
kmantic
· 1 month ago
With Twitter, I think there's already a Firefox add-on to get Twitter results in your Google searches. (Grease-monkey or something like that - I installed it and it's kinda cool). http://mt-hacks.com/20090302-realtime-twitter-s...
Facebook will be an interesting case. Given the depth of private information some of its users have on there, I would hope they continue to maintain and respect their users' privacy selections.
d3bruts1d
· 1 month ago
So Bing will be able to search status messages? Why is this so HUGE? I can already search Twitter status messages, here is a Google example... http://bit.ly/1KSMSE Then there is always the search.twitter.com site, which allows... you know, the ability to search status messages.
Facebook, I don't care. Profile is set to private.
Derek
· 1 month ago
Wow, this is definintely an interesting concept, but wouldn't that saturate the search engines with irrelevant or unrelated results?
Maybe this could get me to actually try bing. Maybe. Sounds exciting to me - another way to integrate and have a one-stop-shop online.
barringtonarch
· 1 month ago
hats off to bing & microsoft, they are really pushing this search engine.
Web Strategy
· 1 month ago
Interesting... That'll have some SEO implications.
Wonder how people will like their social threads showing up in searches.
Where you start to realize the implications of not owning your own data.
Shaun Dunne
· 1 month ago
Im just cruising the comments section and laughing at how many times Dave Nattriss has to tell people the same thing about making your profiles private.
Hannah
· 1 month ago
What does this mean for Facebook privacy settings? What will Bing index in terms of status updates?
All Comments
Facebook Option: Only allow friends to view status updates, NOT everyone
I would assume that the privacy options allowed by both networks will be respected.
Who wants a tinfoil hat?
However if the search parameters delve into private updates then I'll have a problem.
http://twitter.com/tos
Yeah, maybe so...but we are talking about Microsoft.
This would be like...dare I say? Googling your name and instead of a link to your Twitter page, your update comes up. That's a little different.
You can set whatever privacy policay you want, all it takes is one person who follows you to retweet in amy way for that to not work.
I suppose it would be good for prospective employers? But a status update may not be enough to tell you what you want to know.
Any thoughts on how this will be great? I'm not trying to sound horrid, I'm just curious if there's something huge I'm missing.
But I wonder if it will end up getting in the way of real info. Say I want to find info about H1N1. I want real info not ten thousand people tweeting "omg I think I have H1N1" and so on. It just seems like it will be a lot of extra crap to wade through, you know? I'd be more interested if there was an option to search web OR tweets OR Facebook but not all at once.
I don't want to make my Twitter account private - I don't care if people search me, then take the initiative to go out there and look at my Twitter page, but I don't want every update I make the first thing on the search.
What's the point in having a Twitter or Facebook then? Why don't we all just use one, giant, ridiculous social media site instead? That's what this feels like to me.
Facebook?
Wait until Google Wave goes public, then the changes will start popping up like wildfire.
Think about it. Have a 1000 twitter accounts (super cheap and simple to do) all using twitterfeed to auto post tweets every 30 minutes about different niches. Now, instead of only twitter search, they will appear in bing. Viola! Instant traffic!
Would be even worse for facebook because facebook statuses since they are less known for stream noise/spam.
Don't think it won't happen. As fast as one account gets banned, another will replace it.
How will they even optimize 140 characters anyway?
As I wrote in a comment above, if I want to research a topic like H1N1 then I want proper results, not 10,000 people who recently tweeted "omg I think I have H1N1" - not useful at ALL.
Google.
HA
It's the Facebook angle people should be concerned about, not Twitter, as Facebook requires mutual consent on both ends of every personal connection made. Facebook is an explicitly private network, while Twitter is explicitly public.
Guess what? I can search any keyword on Twitter and find every tweet you ever sent containing that keyword. If this is news to any of you, you really shouldn't be using Twitter in the first place.
Facebook will be an interesting case. Given the depth of private information some of its users have on there, I would hope they continue to maintain and respect their users' privacy selections.
Facebook, I don't care. Profile is set to private.
Derek
http://www.avenuesocial.com
Wonder how people will like their social threads showing up in searches.
Where you start to realize the implications of not owning your own data.