From where I am today, I’ll write a post about what comes up, what I like and don’t like, and where I think things can move forward with search in general. I don’t normally cover search here, but in light of my recent January sponsor, it’s on my mind.

I’ve gotta tell you, on day 1, there’s room to grow. Here’s what I see when I “bing” my own name:

In the realm of people I don’t want to have come up when you search for me, Chris Brown’s pretty high up there (if you don’t know the backstory of his little problems in life, I’m not telling you. Just bing “Chris Brogan” and you can find all about Chris Brown).

That’s where we are 30 days out. Not that the thing is built to appease me, but if I can’t find me easily, and if Bing doesn’t think I’m relevant enough to come up for my own name search, I’m not there yet.

Cool part so far? Visual search. I think that’s got some legs.

Anyhow. Here’s Day 1. See you back in a month.

Oh, and Bing people: please fix my entry?

I just checked out a project from Federated Media called BingTweets.com. It sniffs Twitter’s trending topics and merges that with Microsoft Bing search results (note: parts of Microsoft are client of NML, but NOT the folks at BING).

What’s cool about that is there are MANY times when we see trends on Twitter and we wonder what the backstory is. In my example, I clicked half-blood prince and got local showtimes for the new Harry Potter movie (hmmm, I could sneak off and watch THAT). I think this can be pretty darned useful.

But think about this: this is actually an ADVERTISEMENT, and yet, it’s useful. Chew on that a bit. It’s a relationship with an application built by Federated Media to help Microsoft promote Bing.

This beats the HELL out of a banner ad, don’t you think?

What’s your take?