Google & Bing’s Unequal Facebook Status Update Deals by Danny Sulllivan, Search Engine Land (Dec 16)
Blow by blow account of the history of Bing and Google in bringing in status updates (the term now used for microblogging).
Why should we care? "Updates often contain great content, such as information that doesn’t exist anywhere else on the web or which can be mined to see the popular links that are being shared. Having updates is essential for anyone who wants to run a real time search service. And when it comes to status update content, Twitter and Facebook have more of it than anyone else."
Google and Bing might be even on Twitter now, but Danny Sullivan says Google lags at Facebook.
"Google is only getting information from fan pages. Those millions of people on Facebook putting out updates via personal pages? Google’s not getting any of that."
Bing does et the personal updates that are public. But they aren't integrated with search results. So where are they? And Google, which supposedly gets the fan updates, doesn't include them in the real-time search.
It will all sort out someday.
Posted by Gwen at December 17, 2009 09:51 PM