Microsoft and Google: real-time search on Twitter
Twitter is becoming the new battleground for Google and Microsoft. Both Google Search and Microsoft's search engine, Bing, will index real-time information from Twitter in the future.
Shortly after each other, Microsoft and Google announced at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that their search engines will also search Twitter's short messages, so-called tweets, in future. This means that the status messages of Twitter users will soon be included directly in search results. This once again demonstrates the increasing importance of the so-called "real-time web". Google says it intends to launch the function "in the next few months", and the integration of Twitter into Bing will probably take a few more weeks or months. However, Microsoft is not only using the development time to build an interface for tweets, but also to integrate Facebook status updates into its search. This will enable Bing to search the two most popular Web 2.0 services in future and will apparently be one step ahead of Google.
