Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook-Bing

Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by ccollins on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @02:21PM (#895295)

Relevance for tweets / status updates is pretty simple: Newer = more relevant.

For example: http://www.google.com/search?q=san+francisco+halloween gives me a bunch of halloween stores

http://twitter.com/#search?q=san%20francisco%20halloween gives me a bunch of events (much more useful for me!)

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Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by axod on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @02:41PM (#895352)

If those sort of tweets get into search results simply based on "newest", you can be sure it'll be used extensively by marketers trying to spam their way into search listings.

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Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by ubernostrum on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @03:43PM (#895475)

FWIW, Twitter seems to be on top of the arms race right now. A little while back I was getting 3-4 spam followers/@-replies a day; over the past few weeks, though, I've had exactly two.

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Re:Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook... by jrockway on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @06:09PM (#895751)

I am getting these almost every day now. Annoying at first, now I am considering using some other service. Twitter is too popular and popular services eventually become shit.

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