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| Now Search Twitter Hashtags And Users With Bing |
Search is one game Microsoft just won't give up on, even in the face of stern competition and enormous odds. Constantly adding new features, Bing is all gearing up to take on Google. In a fresh announcement, Microsoft has taken its partnership with Twitter
further to include more content from the microblogging site on Bing
Search. Starting this week, Bing will include Twitter hashtag and
handles searches in its search results.
Hashtag search
Tweets have been showing up on Bing search for quite some time. And you could even embed Tweets on Bing maps. With this new Twitter-Bing integration, users can now perform hashtag searches to find trending topics on the social media.
People on Twitter generate millions of tweets every minute - content
that can benefit others outside the social network. Granted that not
every tweet is useful, but if you combine the popularity of a tweet
(i.e. re-tweet/favorite count), its age, and the authority of its
creator, you have a recipe for quality content that can be helpful
outside Twitter.
So, how do you do a hashtag search on Bing? Simply add a # symbol before your search term while searching on Bing!
Searching for a hashtag then surfaces top results from Twitter in the search results.
Search for Twitter handles
Users can also search for specific Twitter handles, and
celebrity-related tweets. This can be done by entering the @ symbol
before a username. Bing will deliver a list of matching top Twitter
profiles, and include relevant tweets related to the specific Twitter
handle in its search results.
Celebrity searches on Bing will also now include the top content from Twitter related to the celebrity.
Bing will start rolling this update for all users in the next week. If
you're the lucky one to get it earlier, let us know what you think of
these new changes in the comments section below! We'd love to hear from
you.
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