Microsoft’s revamped Bing search engine has harnessed the power of Twitter to enhance the relevancy of the engine’s results.

The Redmond outfit has confirmed that a select number of prolific Twitter users are currently being indexed in the experiment.

“We’re not indexing all of Twitter at this time… just a small set of prominent and prolific Twitterers to start. We picked a few thousand people to start, based primarily on their follower count and volume of tweets,” wrote Microsoft Search Technology Center GM Sean Suchter. “We think this is an interesting first step toward using Twitter’s public API to surface Tweets in people search.”

The initial roster of Tweeple is designed to appeal to a broad range of unique interest groups; provided examples include Danny Sullivan, Kara Swisher, Al Gore and Ryan Seacrest. We can infer that Microsoft hopes to interest the critical Digg regurgitator, chatty Cathy, washed up politician and squealing fangirl demographics with these selections.

Suchter also encouraged users to follow Bing on Twitter.

Academics across the globe have begun debating the relative merits of Wolfram|Alpha’s ability to crunch complex equations at the touch of a button. Some embrace it as a sign of the time, while the Luddites that banned your TI-92+ are taking up arms against Skynot.

Apparently this is such serious business that it’s worthy of phrases like “Pandora’s box,” “Scared” and “math war.”

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed in an interview yesterday that the search giant remains unthreatened by the introduction of Microsoft’s revamped Bing search engine.

Schmidt said in an interview with Fox Business Network that Bing’s arrival is already passé.

“It’s not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year,” Schmidt said.

“And from Bing’s perspective, they’ve got a bunch of new ideas but some things are missing,” he said. “And we think that search is really about comprehensive and freshness. The scale and size of what we do, it’s just difficult for them to copy that.”

Research group ComScore Inc confirms that Bing.com’s search market share grew from 9.1 to 11.1 percent between June 2 and June 6 but remains mum on long-term growth potential.

On the upshot, Microsoft’s new search venture offers keen insight into the unspoken realities of the humand mind.

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Wolfram Alpha LLC announced today that its new Wolfram|Alpha search engine has received an update to improve its robustness.

Enhancements to the company’s body of compiled data includes planetary distances, stock prices, geopolitical names, facts and events, and additional currencies. The search outfit also promises that their engine will be more receptive to natural language questions and exhibit greater self-awareness.

“Today, as one step in our ongoing, long-term development process, we’ve just made live the first broad updates to the core code and data of Wolfram|Alpha” the Wolfram team said in a press release.

The firm also indicated it that it is working to prepare a preview of the next update which could be ready as early as tomorrow. It is expected that the computational search engine still won’t know what to do with your input once this update goes live.

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