Not at the OK Corral but at the Web 2.0 Summit. Microsoft and Bing face off against Google; the fight is over Twitter, as Microsoft has Facebook in its pocket. (Remember the $240 million investment.) Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb sorts through the search fight that came to a head today.
Most Facebook users want “privacy” (there’s the reciprocity thing) and keep their content protected. Most Twitter users want connections and keep their content public (ie, not protected). I think it will be more difficult to convince Facebook folks to “open up” than Twitter folks to update their Google profiles, if by updating the profile they’ll get better (more contextual, more meaningful) search results.
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