Twitter Updates On Google, Bing

Refusing to be upstaged, Google Inc.'s Internet search index will include public updates from Twitter's communications stream.

Google announced the Twitter deal on its blog less than three hours after Microsoft Corp., whose search engine is called Bing, trumpeted its own Twitter partnership at a San Francisco technology conference.

Google to Enable Music Searches

Google Inc. will launch music search pages next week and include ways for consumers to buy songs for download, according to people familiar with the matter.

The music pages will package images of musicians and bands, album artwork, links to news, lyrics, videos and song previews, along with a way to buy songs, they said.