Recent news sprung up regarding the inclusion of tweets in Bing search. It sparked a lot of conversation among the crowd because it triggered the question of the importance of instant popular sentiment. Is it really that important to be indexed or is Bing just crafting some stuff to generate some buzz on the top social media site?
First, let us take a look at the nature of tweets. It is sent in an instant to explain what an individual is currently doing or feeling. Following that, it is true that it can generate a trend on what the people are thinking about or the things they are into. It can then provide niche researchers some good information.
But what about ordinary tweets as sources of information? For example, if I talk about cake in my tweet like “My mom baked an amazing cake for my birthday”, is this actually beneficial to the person who is actually searching for information on cakes. Just imagine. You will only type the word “cake” if one, you are interested to learn how to make it or if you want to buy it. Well, there may be the third option that you are just searching for the term just for fun but the tweet will not be helpful to any party.
My concern here is how Bing will filter through tweets to trigger the most important ones and those that do not matter at all. After all, the goal of search is to bring the most relevant web pages in the results. If Bing will just turn out to be a Twitter search engine, then it will just suck.