Bing, Twitter and Facebook?
According to BoomTown, Microsoft is set to announce deals today with Facebook AND Twitter.
They will be separate, non-exclusive deals that will pull real time feeds of status updates and tweets into Bing search results. (Source:
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A few notes:
- This is a real score for Bing, since it will be the first time they offer something in their results that Google doesn’t. (Rumor has it Google isn’t far behind them though and are in talks.)
- This deal, if it happens, won’t happen right away.
- Although Twitter is getting all the hype, Facebook actually has more status updates at this point.
- Facebook users will have the choice of not making their updates public and searchable. Most of Twitter’s stuff is public anyway so there isn’t an issue there.
- While I think this is all really interesting and is definitely changing things – it makes me wonder what this will do to the quality of the SERPs – it will be interesting to see how they implement it.
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