WebMynd is a browser plugin that delivers real-time web search results in a sidebar whenever you do a search query on the web. Previously only available to integrate with Google, the latest version of WebMynd now supports Bing integration as well.
Once the plugin is installed, after doing a web search on Microsoft’s new search engine Bing, a search sidebar appears on the right side of the results page above the sponsored sites listings. Here you’ll see the most recent news and videos from the real-time web as powered by OneRiot, a company whose technology crawls social sharing services like Twitter and Digg for the latest news.
At the moment, WebMynd works OK, but it could use a little tweaking. I found the real-time news search box would cut off portions of the text descriptions (see image) and the sidebar would also mess with the CSS of some of the search results, too. Also disappointing is that the plugin is currently only available for Firefox users. Still, I like the concept of a real-time sidebar, I just would like to see a smoother implementation.
In the meantime, a better alternative may be adding Twitter search to Bing using the Greasemonkey script Twitter Search Results on Bing. (For a how-to guide, click here). This adds Twitter search results above the Bing results whenever you enter a query…and the implementation is much cleaner than WebMynd’s.
Then again, perhaps the best option of all for those of you interested in the real-time web is to simply download the IE8 real-time browser (or at least its addons).
