Qwiki, a video startup that launched two years ago on stage at
TechCrunch Disrupt, has landed a big search deal with Bing.
Bing, which owns ~ 30% of the search market, will show Qwiki
videos as the second result on all relevant search pages, just
below Wikipedia.  For example, if you search M.I.A. on Bing, the
Wikipedia listing is the first result. The second is a link to a
Qwiki video. If a user clicks the Qwiki link, a short clip pops
up that visually explains M.I.A.  "We like to try new things and
we want to see how users will react to Qwiki," says Bing's
Principal Development Lead, Franco Salvetti.  "There's a bit of
magic when you see a Qwiki video for the first time. It's
visually a different way of presenting information."  The
Bing/Qwiki deal has been in the works for some time. We first
learned about it more than one year ago.   "It's always been our
vision to create a 'play' button search engine. Two years later
we have it," says Qwiki CEO and founder Doug Imbruce. "In the
future, we want to turn a