Bing and Google Fight Search Battle in Real-Time

Facebook and Twitter must have felt like the belles of the social media ball Wednesday. Both companies announced agreements with search engine suitors Google and Microsoft’s Bing to integrate their status updates and tweets into search results, bringing with them the likelihood of more real-time results to search queries and conjuring up visions of next-level information gathering on the Internet.

Although both search engines used the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco to announce the news, Microsoft’s Bing was first to tell the audience that it had sealed a deal with Facebook and Twitter, and it was also the first to take the Twitter part of the arrangement live.