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Greg Sterling from Search Engine Land reviewed the new Bing iPhone app yesterday and the overall feeling is great.  Bing’s iPhone app is a testament that Microsoft has “come a long way in acknowledging the importance of the iPhone platform… and an important step for Microsoft to gain access to the mobile internet’s most active and engaged audience right now.”  He describes it as stacking “up very well and [offering] a more ‘integrated’ experience in many respects.”  Queries can be keyed in or spoken using voice search technology and he says that it is even more accurate than Google’s.  There is also map access and a location finder.  Click here for the full article.

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Bing has had a deal in place for the last week to integrate Facebook status updates and tweets from Twitter into Real Time Search Results.  Google announced their deal with Twitter last week as well, also announcing that Facebook updates would also be made available soon.  However, today Google released their deal with Facebook and revealed that only status updates from Facebook pages would be available in their search results (ie: not personal pages, but company pages).  Bing will also have the personal status updates, not just public Facebook pages.  The reason?  Facebook says, “The terms of the Google deal were specifically related to public updates on Pages. But our conversations with both companies are continually evolving regarding ways in which we might work together in the future.”

Sources: Search Engine Land, Bing.com