This picture taken in July 2009 in Paris shows the front page of the Microsoft search web engine Bing. Microsoft on Wednesday said it will begin serving up Facebook and Twitter status feeds in its Bing online search engine.
Microsoft on Wednesday said it will begin serving up Facebook and Twitter status feeds in its Bing online search engine.
Real-time comments from the leading social-networking community and the popular microblogging service will soon be included with Bing query results, said Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president of Microsoft's online services group.
"Here we are bringing the best of real-time right inside search results," Mehdi said while demonstrating the feature on stage at a Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
"We are going to get access to all of the public Twitter information in real time. Within a few minutes you should be able to use it," he said.
The Twitter feature can be accessed at bing.com/twitter. The Facebook status feed will be introduced at a later date, Mehdi said.
© 2009 AFP