It only took Google a few hours to respond to Microsoft’s announcement from earlier today that their search engine Bing is now integrated with Twitter for real-time search results. Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of Search Products and User Experience posted RT @Google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! on the Official Google Blog.
The post by Marissa Mayer is short, to the point and clearly to attempt to rebut Microsoft’s announcement from earlier today. An excerpt from her post announcing the partnership is below:
“… we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.”
While Bing’s Twitter search is live today (check it out here) – it sounds like Google won’t have their Twitter search released for some time – possibly months. This is obviously a position Google doesn’t like to be in – beaten to the punch in search by their nemesis. I wonder how Larry, Sergey and Eric feel about this one – that’s a point for Microsoft.
BTW – has Yahoo just completely given up at this point?!
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