Google’s Twitter Search Engine Challenges Bing’s Twitter Search Engine!

Within hours of being launched, Bing’s new Twitter Search Engine, faces competition as Google announces their own Twitter Search Engine.

Microsoft at Web 2.0 summit announced that their Bing Twitter Search Engine will henceforth begin indexing tweets from popular micro blogging service, Twitter.com. Bing’s Twitter Search Engine now allows users to search for popular tweets across Twitter.com. Although it is in beta testing, the service is made available only for US users.

Bing.com/twitter opened at the Web 2.0 summit yesterday. The beta version of Bing’s Twitter Search Engine was made available for use.

But Google wasn’t quiet for long, as Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience made a quick announcement, saying:

At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged — real-time updates like those on Twitter have appeared not only as a way for people to communicate their thoughts and feelings, but also as an interesting source of data about what is happening right now in regard to a particular topic.

Given this new type of information and its value to search, 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.

Marissa Mayer is expected to make a presentation at the summit, and more details over Google’s Twitter Search Engine are expected to be disclosed.

But for now Bing has a lead and has Google beat! Google doesn’t have a product to showcase at the Summit, as Mayer was quoted saying : “we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months” implies that Google has no actual product at the moment, to showcase its agreement with Twitter.