Microsoft's Bing to include Twitter feed results

Seattle: Microsoft Corp, seeking an edge over Google Inc and Yahoo! Inc, will include updates from Twitter Inc in its new Bing search engine. Bing will initially display Twitter feed entries, or Tweets, from prominent users of the social-networking site, Microsoft said Wednesday in a blog posting. Users who search for names like "Al Gore" along with the word "Twitter" will get the former vice president's latest Tweets and a link to see more. Microsoft released Bing last month in a bid to improve on its third-place ranking in the US internet-search market. The new feature is part of an effort to get more "real-time data" into search results, the company said. Twitter, used by everyone from Ashton Kutcher to Shaquille O'Neal to Barack Obama, has grown into the third-largest US social-networking... [read full story]                    

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