Microsoft Outmaneuvers Google with Twitter Deal- This Time

Mark this day in history:

Google (GOOG) plays second fiddle to Microsoft (MSFT) by announcing its deal with Twitter AFTER Bing.

…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.

The rather brief blog announcement and the integration still being “months” away–compared to Bing’s live test of Twitter results–suggests that Google was out-maneuvered by Microsoft. This time.

Comments

[learnmoney:]

So what does this mean for the share prices?

Oct 22 09:04 AM

[Zenfar:]

Twitter is one of these companies that will figure out how to make money "latter".

Oct 22 09:13 AM

[Zenfar:]

Spoke too soon terms of the deal not announced so could be $$$ going Twitters way as well as showing MSFT to be working search aggressively.

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It effects the share price in a long term perspective, for the simple reason that if MSFT can take search share from GOOG before GOOG builds another huge $$$ stream then +1 for MSFT. Of course Android could be that huge $$$ stream...

MSFT should buy PALM in my humble opinion.

Oct 22 09:54 AM

[Maxi:]

Bing has started to intimidate Google. I think Bing has what it takes to knock Google out.

Oct 22 10:01 AM