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What does Bing have that Google does not?

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Your Facebook feeds. Well, potentially. While details have yet to be released the deal between Bing and Facebook suggests that some of 40 million daily updates will be included in Bing’s search results. Users will have the ability to opt in or opt out using tools provided by Facebook.

In another deal Microsft’s Bing will also include Twitter feeds in its search results thus bringing real time search to the Web. While Twitter feeds have always been public they needed to be accessed using Twitter search or Twitter apps.

However the Microsoft deal with Twitter is non-exclusive and Google isn’t about to let Microsoft have the spotlight or a foot into real-time search alone. Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, announced today that Google will be including Twitter’s feed in their search results as well. (more…)

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