Real-Time Search on Agenda at Bing and Google

How Will Twitter Integration Into Google, Bing Affect The Tweecosystem?

AllThingsD reported yesterday that Twitter was in independent discussions (which have happened before) with both Google and Microsoft “in which the companies would license a full feed from the microblogging service that could then be integrated into the results of their competing search engines.” Reuters also picked up the story.

Bing and Google have both indicated that “real-time search” is on the agenda and this would quickly accelerate those efforts. Bing previously added “Twitter Smart Answers.” There are also third party tools to add Twitter results to both Google and Bing. And as you know Google’s relatively new search options allows people to filter by results from the “past hour.”  [Read more...]