Two weeks ago was Jeff Pulver’s 140 Character Conference in Los Angeles and oh, what a whirlwind. My head is still spinning from the two-day, somewhat star-studded event. By day we all talked Twitter (while tweeting out all the conference’s big tips) and by night we all drank Twitter (while tweeting out all the conference’s gossip.) Continue reading
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Bing/Twitter Search is a Giant Cluster
This is what happens when a great search engine that appears to have its head on straight (Bing) teams up with a company that has little clue about how to not implode on itself (Twitter): Bing/Twitter search (just went live in Beta):
On first glance, my initial thought was: This is awful. Seriously, just awful. Ask my #prbc friends. I wasn’t happy with the product. Basically, I thought Bing and Twitter had gotten together and created a giant cluster of links, tweets and people’s Twitter handles. Basically, there was no structure or coherent approach to how to effectively utilize and manage this new search feature. Continue reading
Seriously? Goog v. Bing search Twitter
Disclaimer – I’m a Google Harlot. With minor exception, if Google offers it, I use it. Yup, I’m on Wave (along with most of PRBC and BTW, if anyone’s got a few extra invites, we’ve still got some holes to fill), I used Google Docs back before it was Docs (Writely was acquired by Google and then morphed into Docs), Maps, Earth, pretty much everything. I usually prefer Google search to Twitter search for finding old tweets – a username or two, a keyword, isolate the search to twitter.com and frequently I can dig out old tweets with minimal difficulty.
So Microsoft’s Beta launch of the Bing Twitter search was a disappointment for me. I had been unimpressed with any of Microsoft’s search engines (The original Microsoft search/MSN search, Live, Bing, meh….). So I had little hope. The one big selling point a proper Twitter search would give it a longer memory. Continue reading