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Search engines will now feature Twitter updates as microblogging site stands to profit from dealsTwitter, the microblogging company which lets users express their thoughts in text message-length bursts, has proven itself the most desirable property on the internet by announcing deals with both Microsoft and Google yesterday.Early yesterday, it seemed that Microsoft had stolen an important march over its younger, dominant rival in the search engine market, when it triumphantly announced that it would offer a facility to search tweets in real time through its newly rebranded search engine, Bing.'Twitter is producing millions of tweets every minute on every subject you can imagine. The power of those tweets as a form of data that can be surfaced in search is enormous,' said Paul Yiu, its head of search, on a Microsoft blog.He continued: 'Were you as fascinated by the 6-year-old boy floating away in a balloon as we were? Was it a hoax? We know that people are going to twitter more and more

Microsoft's Bing and Google's search engine are preparing real-time searches of Twitter and Facebook posts. Targeted ads could follow

Microsoft's Bing and Google's search engine are preparing real-time searches of Twitter and Facebook. Targeted ads could follow

Google's Marissa Mayer Oct. 21 unveiled Google social Search, a pending opt-in service that will let users with Google accounts, profiles and contacts find content created by people in social networks such as Twitter and FriendFeed. The news came just hours after Microsoft executives announced that Bing would be surfacing search results with Twitter tweets and Facebook status updates in real time. Google already has millions of users for its general search engine. If even a fraction of these millions begin using Google Social Search, it might not leave much room for challengers such as Aardvark, Mahalo and ChaCha. - A key Google search executive unveiled Google Social Search at the Web 2.0 Summit Oct. 21, attempting to upstage significant announcements from search challenger Microsoft Bing. Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google, got permission to make a...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Google Inc secured separate agreements to access real-time content from Web phenomenon Twitter, intensifying their battle for a search market that Google dominates.

Users of Google's search engine will soon have the option to include content created by friends in search results lists.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and Google Inc have sealed separate agreements to access real-time content from Web phenomenon Twitter, intensifying their battle for a search market that Google now dominates.

Google Will Index Real-Time Twitter Messages in Search Results as Microsoft Integrates Tweets into Bing

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