Comments on: Bing Spamming Twitter?

By: Yumi Vega

Yumi Vega — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:13:09 +0000

i am using both Bing and Google a nd i think both search engines give relevant search results. i would still prefer Google though, because it gives a little bit more relevant search results than Bing.

By: Jimmy Sy

Jimmy Sy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:34:43 +0000

i have been using the BING search engine for a couple of weeks. it seems to be as good as Google but for some reason i would still want to stick with Google search engine

By: George

George — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:15:32 +0000

i have been evaluating the search results of Microsoft Bing compared to Google and they are comparable. Bing gives almost the same relevant search results just like Google.

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By: melatoninlady

melatoninlady — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:13:20 +0000

Microsoft Bing would be the closet competitor of Google. but i still use Google because it shows more relevant results on the serp.

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By: detoxdiet

detoxdiet — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:11:56 +0000

my initial test result shows that Bing is as good as Google when displaying relevant search results. Google might be having a tough competitor with Microsofts own search engine.

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By: Jeremy Chatfield

Jeremy Chatfield — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:51:31 +0000

Thanks, Rich – I should have known you’d penetrate the details!

Hmm. Twitter-culture wise, doesn’t this seem a dangerous usage? Or is this part of the emergence of trending topics?

And what if, as in this case, it appears to be based on re-presenting old information as new? The original source needs to get “community de-rating” as an unreliable source?

By: Richard Ball

Richard Ball — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:29:11 +0000

I think Joe’s right. It’s crowdsourced spam, enabled by Twitter, encouraged by MerchantCircle (who’s scraping TechCrunch content).

By: Kim Clink

Kim Clink — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:54:35 +0000

Even *if* it is a tweet this issue appearing as spam in this case I think it is just a matter of time before we have a spam issue on Twitter. Spammers have worked their way in everywhere else, why not Twitter?

By: Jeremy Chatfield

Jeremy Chatfield — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:05:56 +0000

Thanks Joe – that would do it. Hmm. Never occurred to me to ever click “Tweet This” with someone else’s writing. Perhaps I’m too much of a control freak. When I speak, I try to make it me :)

By: Joe Bowers

Joe Bowers — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:48:00 +0000

I’m guessing these identical messages are the result of a “Tweet this” control offered by some upstream web site. Users click a button, log in to twitter, and the message is posted (or something more complex but operationally identical).

I suppose this sort of *is* spamming, but it’s spamming with the complicity of each poster. Perhaps the punch line is, think three times before clicking the “Tweet this” button/link/whathaveyou on a site you think is worth sharing.