Bing Rings Up Real-Time Twitter Results (Facebook Next)

Microsoft president of the online services group Qi Lu and senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi announced that search engine Bing will aggregate real-time search results from social-networking services Facebook and Twitter at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Wednesday, CNET reported.

The Twitter component is already live, with the Facebook component—which will include all publicly shared information on the social network—to follow at a later date.

Lu told CNET the Twitter deal is nonexclusive, but he did not address Facebook, and Mehdi said, “You have to do more visual things, you have to do more sophisticated things, and you have to have better access to data.”

Yu spoke with O’Reilly Media founder and CEO Tim O’Reilly at the Web 2.0

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