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Bing Adds Tweets

Bing this week added tweets from Twitter on the Bing News search results pages. "The tweets are public updates from the Twitter stream related to the news query," reported Search Engine Land. For example, search for [japan] on Bing News, and you'll now see a box on the right that says "Public updates for japan," Search Engine Land's Greg Sterling explains. Users can pause the stream of tweets, if they want to slow down the stream. They can also click through to read the tweet by the Twitter user directly on Twitter.com.

Meanwhile, users can click on the "more updates" link to be taken to Bing's Social Search results for that query. Min-John Lee, senior program manager at Microsoft Bing news and real-time search, confirmed in a tweet that this was new. He said, "@dannysullivan bing news just launched twitter tweets in news search results. (cc @sengineland)." Adds Sterling: "The Bing News search results page does look a bit cluttered and can maybe benefit from a slight redesign."

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