Microsoft is adding "real-time" search results from Facebook and Twitter to its Bing decision engine search engine, after inking deals with both social networking outfits. Redmond senior vice president for online audience business Yusuf Mehdi announced the deals today at a mini-conference in San Francisco, The Wall Street …

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Wednesday 21st October 2009 22:10 GMT Michael Sheils

Google have done the same thing

at the same time.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/rt-google-tweets-and-updates-and-search.html

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Wednesday 21st October 2009 22:10 GMT Combat Wombat

Bing.. the sound of...

FUCKING USELESS !!

Who the hell cares about twits and facebook tards?

I want a search engine to produce USEFUL results, not a bunch of tweets from twats.

Given that MS owns a large chunk of facebook, this is hardly a suprise.

Google still gets my queries

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Wednesday 21st October 2009 22:10 GMT Mathew White

Oy Vey

Yet another reason not to have a facebook account.

Im still bemused by M$'s attitude to Bing. But then again - they do lover their bloated, disorganised and overhyped software thats based on another company's engineering.

I gave him a halo, just to be ironic.

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Wednesday 21st October 2009 22:10 GMT Nate Phillips

..the rest of the verse?

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Wednesday 21st October 2009 22:10 GMT Nate Phillips

When Can I...

...get a search engine that DOESN'T display results from a crap-load of social sites?

Just one more reason to not use bing.

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Thursday 22nd October 2009 00:24 GMT John 158

@Oy Vey

That's not a halo its electrons desperately trying to escape the bing servers.

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Thursday 22nd October 2009 10:18 GMT Patrick O'Reilly

Fail

bing.com/twitter doesn't actually return any results when you search

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Thursday 22nd October 2009 10:36 GMT Anonymous Coward

death

The social networking freaks should have their own non-information search engine. It might as well just be a giant mirror, since that's what they seem to want.

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