talked about this in an announcement on its blog, saying:
“Through an exclusive partnership with Twitter, Bing is rolling out a fast and intuitive way to discover tweets directly in its search results. Now when you search for a trending hashtag, Bing will show the most relevant tweets directly in the search results – in near real-time.”Obviously, in real time! Basically people can now user Bing to search for pretty much anything on Twitter — which should come in handy for users on all platforms, desktop, tablets and mobile. The social network is growing larger by the minute with around six thousand tweets sent every second.
Redmond has been trying to bring more social elements to Bing, and this new partnership is definitely a step in the right direction. And this feature is fairy powerful, as expected.
Particularly the search for specific Twitter handles is very intuitive — though icons for verified accounts would have been a better bet, instead of plain text.
Anyway, this new feature is already available in the US Bing homepage, and the company is currently rolling it out for users across the globe.]]>
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“Microsoft have just signed a new partnership deal with Twitter, and users can now search for Twitter accounts, tweets and hashtags straight from the Bing homepage.”
I believe it should be has not have.
A really nice add by microsoft though, and as you pointed out, this was a long time coming. Late to the party, but they’re finally dancing.
I believe you are right, though the usage of either have’ or ‘has’ is considered to be perfect acceptable in the context of companies and organizations.
Google hasn’t probably considered Bing a real threat for awhile, but they should take notice now. Bing is clearly improving steadily, and this is simply another sign of that. Nice idea and execution.
You’re so right. Google still has a large lead obviously, but moves like this will help Bing continue to chip away at that lead. Bing is here to stay.
They better watch out. The only problem Bing hasn’t been as big a threat as it could be is because Microsoft has been so US-focused with everything other than Office and Windows. Microsoft is getting away from that. Bing is about to go worldwide soon. It’s share is not bad in the U.S. Just wait until it’s everywhere, especially if it is improved to be like the U.S version
Indeed, only a matter of time now, thanks to deep integration in newer versions of Windows and Windows Phone.