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For sometime now, Bing as a potential competition to Google was a hot topic of discussion and now there’s more news coming from Bing. And this time its bigger than before. “A collaboration of Bing and Twitter” and a sneak peak into the product of this collaboration “Bing tweets” is already available for trial. Big as it may sound, not many seem to be pleased with the idea after taking a look at it. Here’s how it looks

A neat design, but is loaded with more features than you can count. For example, if you search Bing Tweets for “Harry Potter” and on one part of the page, the Bing search results will load, and next to them, recent tweets containing the same term. BingTweets also has a built-in option for tweeting the search result, as well as a “Trending Topics” box that extends beyond Twitter’s top ten to include currently popular topics, places, people, and products. To me, it was all mashed up with way too many results and i feel it actually takes time to find exactly what you want.

In commenting about this multi tasking search, Bing team writes, “For example, when Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince comes out, you may want to scan the official reviews, local theater listing, AND the latest Tweets on the movie to help you decide whether to rush to see it. With Bing Tweets, you can cover all that ground in one place.”

Well but what about someone who is looking for one bit of the search, the search simply gets cumbersome.

Considering the unbeatable popularity of Twitter, at some point I can’t help feeling that BingTweet is some kind of promotion strategy for Bing. Guess who developed it? Federated Media, the same guys who launched the Microsoft sponsored “ExecTweets” earlier this year. My doubts are not baseless after all!

That said, Bing Tweet can be seen as real treat for all those Twitter freaks out there. Whether it is for promoting Bing or actually for the benefit of the users, it will surely have some takers, but how will the number be, that’s a question only time will tell.

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