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Hands on with Bing’s real-time Twitter search

// October 22nd, 2009 // Tech News

Bing has gained access to the entire public Twitter feed, which has enabled Microsoft to launch Twitter real-time search results in beta over at Bing.com/Twitter . Microsoft isn’t the only one, as Google announced its own Twitter search deal within hours. Microsoft has also announced a global partnership with Facebook that will bring the social site’s status updates to Bing search results, but that experience will be available at a later date that Microsoft refused to reveal. Both the Twitter and Facebook deals are nonexclusive, but Google doesn’t yet have an actual implementation, so the company is currently playing catch-up with the underdog of search. Given what Bing is offering right now though, we wouldn’t be surprised if Google did more than just catch up.