Just hours after Bing made an announcement that they’ll now offer Twitter results at: http://www.bing.com/twitter, Google has just announced that will also offer Twitter results.

From a Google Blog Post by Marissa Mayer:

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 [our emphasis] we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months.

Btw, at the same time Bing announced their Twitter results engine, they also said that they have made a deal with Facebook to also include their results. That stream of content will be available at a later date.

Matt McGee is blogging Marissa Mayer’s panel at Web 2.0 (with several other big names). You can find the live-blogging here.

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