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Microsoft's Bing seals Facebook, Twitter deals

Reuters October 22, 2009, 8:13 am
A researcher works on his laptop at the Microsoft India research centre in Bangalore in this June 24, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has sealed agreements to access real-time content on hot social networking sites Facebook and Twitter, a boost for its fledgling Bing search engine.

Bing, which hopes to take on current dominant search leader Google Inc, will have access to Twitter's entire store of public data in real time, Microsoft executives said at a presentation at a San Francisco Internet conference.

The terms of the deals -- which the executive said were non-exclusive -- were not disclosed.

(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Richard Chang)

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