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When Microsoft partnered with Twitter to allow its Bing search engine to index tweets in real time, it looked like they had finally gotten the jump on Google at something. Just hours later, Google VP Marissa Mayer announced that the big G had made a Twitter deal, too. Although Bing's Twitter product is out today, Google's won't be too far behind.It looks like Google intends to use tweets to augment search results for up-to-the-minute data. In the official Google blog post on the subject, Mayer gives the example of weather conditions at a ski resort. Getting access to tweets is good for Google, but Bing still has the advantage of being the first to snag the Facebook deal. How long until Google gets one of those, as well?
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Subscribe to commentsKeegdnaBOct 21st 2009 10:57PM
Somehow this news is wasted on me since I've had a greasemonkey script that shows twitter searches in google for EVER!!!!!
neofolkloreOct 22nd 2009 9:34AM
Congratulations, your e-penis is larger than the rest of us.
TwitterFoolsOct 22nd 2009 10:32AM
Big new here. Now tweets will be indexed like mad. It'll help embolden those whose egos are fed by retweets and follower numbers to new heights of twitter volume. Can't wait to see if the end result is helpful or a waste of time and am curious to see how the noise, the useless chatter, will be filtered out. If it will be...