MSFT: Microsoft's search engine to index twitter's updat

microsoft has a new weapon in its internet search duel with google-full access to twitters communications hotbed,in a deal announced wednesday at a tech confrence in S.F. microsoft Corp's search engine,BING will become a new way to find out what people are saying in their twitter messages--also known as tweets".Access to the data is concidered to be one of twitter's most prized assets.Microsoft apparently outbid Google Inc.,for the right to index and display the tweets almost as soon as they are posted.A microsoft exec.declined to disclose the financial details of the partnership.Assuming microsoft is paying for the indexing rights,it would represent Twitters's first significant revenue since it started in 2006.