Google Strikes a Deal with Twitter

October 21st, 2009 by Nick

Google has just announced that it will be incorporating Twitter real-time updates into its search results.   This comes on the heels of this morning’s announcement by Bing that it has reached a deal with both Twitter and Facebook to incorporate their real-time updates into its search results.

The search engine wars are heating up!  Isn’t it amazing how in a few hours Bing goes from staging an amazing coup to having the wind completely sucked out of its sails?  So much for my speculation that Google might be avoiding such a deal in favor of a more robust real-time search solution…

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