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Since launching in 2006, Twitter has become one of the most popular forms of social media for Internet users. Seeing the opportunity available, Microsoft recently struck a deal with Twitter to allow users to search tweets via the Bing search engine.
With the partnership between two companies, Bing users can now access both tweets and links to web-sites at the same time. This is supposed to allow users to look at tweets in real time through the Bing search engine and allow users to search for specific content as well. Users can also just search for Twitter tweets as well.
MSN steals the show this week with two juicy pieces of news. First, Facebook and MSN join to integrate Live Search into Facebook’s search options. Secondly, Live Search is now paying you for searching through them. You can sign up for Search Perks to earn points for prizes like frequent flier miles, notebooks, etc. Lastly, if you’re searching for professionals related to the real estate industry, check out Zillow’s new Professional Directory; the best part is it’s free to get listed in the directory.
Last week, Microsoft bought AQuantive for $6 billion.
AQuantive is the parent to Atlas (ad-serving tools for advertisers and publishers, as well as Atlas Search bid management tools), DRIVEpm (behaviorally targeted ad network/media broker) and Avenue A | Razorfish (digital marketing agency, including search). You can read about it here:
And before that, Google bought DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. DoubleClick, the deal also includes Performics, a search and affiliate marketing agency. You can read about that here:
