Microsoft’s Bing to Integrate Twitter and Facebook Posts
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009From NYTimes.com Blog
By Miguel Helft and Brad Stone
Microsoft planned to announce Wednesday that it had fully integrated posts from Twitter into the search results of Bing, according to people with knowledge of the company’s plans. The company also planned to announce that it had integrated Facebook status updates into Bing, according to a person with knowledge of the plans.
The announcement will be made by Qi Lu, president of Microsoft’s online services division, during a presentation at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco beginning at 11:30 local time. Yusuf Mehdi, senior vice president for Microsoft’s online audience business group, will conduct a demo of the service. (more…)