News: Personal Tech
Google adds MySpace to real-time search results
18.02.2010
Following the sudden departure of its CEO Owen Van Natta last week, things suddenly seem to be looking up for MySpace as Google integrates the social-networking site into its search results.
Yesterday, Microsoft announced it was making its Outlook mail client more social with Outlook Social Connnector, which pulls in status updates from social sites, including MySpace, and now Google has added the granddaddy of social sites into the mix by including it in the real-time search results.
Now, when users search Google, MySpace status updates come back alongside Twitter and FriendFeed (owned by Facebook).
This news follows on from an announcement by Google last December to implement the MySpace Real-Time Search API. So far, the MySpace updates do not seem to be live for Google Ireland but are already at work in the US.
"This partnership increases our users' ability to share and showcase content across the open web and gives people outside the MySpace network even more ways to discover new content," said Mike Jones, co-president of MySpace, on the official MySpace blog.
By Marie Boran
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