Google Tops Bing with Tweets and Social Search

October 22nd, 2009

As the battle for real-time search heats up, Microsoft and Google both inked deals with Twitter on Wednesday. Microsoft’s Bing and Google will integrate tweets into their search results.

But Google took it a step further with a surprise announcement about Social Search at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco late Wednesday. Social Search is a Google Labs experiment that will deliver search results from a user’s social contacts.

Here’s how it works: The bottom of the search-results page will feature social-networking information from the user’s network of friends. That could include Flickr photos, Facebook updates, tweets and the like.

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