signor_john - 8:44 pm on Jul 3, 2009 (gmt 0)

Bing might be the first effort to give the big G a run for its money....With a solid ad campaign, they could shake up the SE world.

It isn't happening yet, according to this article [businessweek.com] from PC World via Business Week.

Will a half-hearted knockoff of Twitter search be enough to catapult Bing past Google? Somehow I doubt it. Why would users go to Bing for a crippled version of Twitter search when they can go to Twitter for the real thing? (Side note: It's interesting that, on a Twitter user's home page, search is down at the bottom next to "About us," "Contact," "Jobs," and other low-profile options. Maybe the folks at Twitter know something about Twitter usage habits that the Bing team doesn't?)