Facebook status updates to appear in Google

By Emma Barnett, Technology and Digital Media Correspondent Published: 11:22AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

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Google will begin integrating standing updates from Facebook Pages accounts in to the real-time poke formula

The formation follows prohibited on the heels of the headlines last week that the poke engine had proposed indexing MySpace users updates. Google has been integrating tweets from Twitter given the finish of last year.

This is the initial time Google has integrated any report from Facebook in to the poke results. However, the report it is authorised to confederate is some-more singular than the understanding the amicable network has in place with Microsofts Bing. Google can usually index standing updates from Facebook Pages that are "for organisations, businesses, celebrities, and bands to promote good report to fans in an official, open manner", according to the networks own definition, and action some-more as selling tools.

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Bing, on the alternative hand, is means to index people standing updates that are set to public. The attribute in between Facebook and Microsoft is closer since the record hulk is an financier in the amicable networking site and additionally powers the poke on the site.

However, Facebook Pages are apropos a bigger underline on the site with some-more than 3 million active users currently on the site and a sum of 5.3 billion fans.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebooks arch handling officer, publicly pronounced last year that no income altered hands with possibly Bing or Google when similar the particular indexing deals.

During 2009 the augmenting recognition of Twitter proposed to have the poke engines appear delayed and incompetent to offer the ultimate updates on fast-moving stories in real-time. During last summer"s protests in Iran, for example, a Google poke on the nation delivered Irans Wikipedia entrance or a new headlines essay about the clashes. However, a poke on Twitter showed the ultimate headlines from the people on the streets of Tehran as events unfolded.

This led to both Google and Microsofts Bing partnering with Twitter, MySpace and Facebook, in sequence to have their searches some-more timely and relevant.

Yesterday the headlines emerged that Yahoo! had additionally sealed a understanding with Twitter, that not usually takes in search, but additionally a deeper formation of the microblogging services tools.