If you missed the announcement earlier today, Microsoft announced that they were bringing Twitter search to their Bing search results.  After finally playing with Bing’s new Twitter search results integration – for, oh, 10 minutes – Google announces on their own blog that they too will be adding Twitter updates to their search results.  What a coincidence!

From Google:

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 we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.

From Bing:

Because today at Web 2.0 we announced that working with those clever birds over at Twitter, we now have access to the entire public Twitter feed and have a beta of Bing Twitter search for you to play with (in the US, for now). Try it out. The Bing and Twitter teams want to know what you think.

Also from the “not a coincidence” file, both search teams spoke (or will be speaking) today the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.  Take that Apple headlines.

RT @google: Tweets and updates and search, oh my! (Official Google Blog)
Bing is Bringing Twitter Search to You (Bing Blog)