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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Teh Internets Re: Bing to Eat and Regurgitate Twitter, Facebook in Real Time

Posted by Grant Brissey on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:00 PM

Didn't take Google long to catch up:

Google has announced a pact to feed Twitter's Web2.0rhea straight into its search engine, hours after Microsoft unveiled a similar deal.

"We are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results," reads a blog post from Googirl Marisa Mayer.

"We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months."

h/t: the Register

Also, speaking of headlines that would have made no sense 15 years ago, how about this one: Facebook Users Spend 8 Billion Minutes/Day on the Site

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"reads a blog post from Googirl Marisa Mayer."

Googirl? Somebody slipped up, or was feeling clever. Don't google it around children.

Posted by Amnt on October 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM

Google has announced a pact to feed Twitter's Web2.0rhea straight into its search engine...

Web2.0rhea rhymes with diarrhea. I wonder if that was intentional because it's definitely appropriate.

Posted by Renton Mike on October 21, 2009 at 4:11 PM

@1: I know. I have to stop quoting those British cads. They're just always popping up in my Google Reader. Google always wins.

Posted by Grant Brissey

on October 21, 2009 at 4:43 PM

What's next for the those Hip and Swingin' Microsoft and Google Execs...they are so "with the kids" doing that "web 2.0 stuff" that they all do.

Yeah, they're a regular bunch of Dick Clarks.

Posted by American Blogstand on October 21, 2009 at 4:55 PM

It's difficult to imagine the volcano of stoopid, useless nonsense that will explode out of this 'advancement'.

Posted by wilbur@work on October 21, 2009 at 7:03 PM

Google already caches Twitter pretty quickly; I've tweeted and then received the same tweet back in a Google Alert e-mail just a few hours later. I know that "a few hours" and "real-time" aren't the same thing, nor is there a dedicated way of searching "show me only things that are New On The Internet As Of Ten Minutes Ago," but it's not as though it's not doing pretty constant sweeps of Twitter already.

Posted by Christin on October 22, 2009 at 7:09 AM