Woot this rocks go Bing!!!
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft has sealed agreements to access real-time content on hot social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, a boost for its fledgling Bing search engine. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)
Bing, which hopes to take on current dominant search leader Google, will have access to Twitter's entire store of public data in real time, Microsoft executives said at a presentation at a San Francisco Internet conference. Bing will become a new way to find out what people are saying in their Twitter messages — also known as "tweets."
Access to the data is considered to be one of Twitter's most prized assets.
According to internet reports, the company will integrate status updates from Twitter and Facebook into Bing.
Microsoft apparently outbid Google for the right to index and display the tweets almost as soon as they are posted.
A Microsoft executive declined to disclosed the financial details of the partnership.
Assuming Microsoft is paying for the indexing rights, it would represent Twitter's first significant revenue since it started in 2006.
Bing seals deals with Facebook and Twitter - Tech and gadgets- msnbc.com
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