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Yesterday we first wrote about the upcoming Bing integration with Facebook, however at the time we were expecting the launch of the service to be imminent. Instead, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, told the Telegraph that “We should have our public updates integrated into a Bing beta within a couple of months. Unlike Twitter’s data stream, which is already totally public, we have to be very careful about making sure the correct data is streamed.”
Oddly enough, we were also expecting some sort of announcement about Google integration given the rumors that surfaced via AllThingsD yesterday. At the time, both Kara Swisher of AllThingsD and Qi Lu of Microsoft alluded to the idea that Facebook had received some sort of financial incentive for sharing their stream data.
Within half an hour of our first article about Bing, Facebook adamantly denounced that there was any financial incentive behind their Bing agreement. While there’s no financial incentive, Facebook is still extremely close with Microsoft given the company’s previous $240 million investment and separate search agreement. That’s why we wouldn’t have been shocked to hear of another agreement which involved cash.
While Facebook may not be selling data, Twitter has no shame in doing so. According to Nicholas Carlson, the company wanted around $100 million to sign an agreement with Google. While we don’t know how much the company hoped for from Microsoft for their Bing agreement, we would assume that there’s some form of financial incentive for Twitter in both search agreements.
With an agreement signed, Twitter is now already live on Bing. Microsoft demoed the new Bing Twitter search on stage at Web 2.0 Summit yesterday in San Francisco and the service went live immediately after. Facebook however is weeks away and there is no information about just how much public data will be available to Bing. While Facebook has provided an “Everyone” privacy setting for profiles for some time now, we have no information about how many users have opted into that setting.
For now we’ll have to wait and see how this new Facebook integration with Bing functions. We’d assume that it will be similar to Twitter, however that’s all we can speculate at this point.
hello how are you
What’s a Bing?
Facebook better not screw up like Myspace did. I found my supposedly “private” Myspace info, including friends’ pictures with their first and last names, pictures of me with children in my family (whose pictures are not for the world to see) etc., posted on a site that collects such info. This site came up in a google search on my first and last name. It took 5 tries and a couple of weeks before the site would remove my info.
My Facebook info, including status updates are “friends-only”…it had better stay that way!
Better to be second and do it right then to jump and accidentally let private info into the WWW!
Take your time.
To the comment above. ^^
Myspace did not “screw up,” it was simply having problems. I do not have a Facebook, but I do have Twitter && Myspace. I’ve never had Facebook, nor will I ever. It’s just a constant flow of stati & your pictures. No one knows much about you, nor can you meet/make new friends over Facebook. On Myspace, however, you’re allowed to have a profile, & listen to music, & when someone goes on your profile, they can see what type of person you are. Myspace has everything that Facebook does, so let’s get rid of FB! It’s pointless, really.
The weird thing is that the “everyone button” hasn’t even been rolled out to everyone yet.
Twitter as a Company has the rights to do agreement with any Company, but Twitter must care about visitors/users personal information at any status.