Google said that it has reached a deal to show content and Tweets from Twitter though its searches. Marissa Mayer, the vice president of search products and user experience, said on Google’s website that the deal had been reached on the same day that Microsoft announced that Bing had come up with a similar deal with Twitter.

“We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months,” Mayer wrote.

Both of the search companies want to provide the kind of real time search results that Twitter and other social networking sties are using. Microsoft has gone a step further than Google by having a second agreement with Facebook. With that deal, financial terms were released and Microsoft will have a $240 million ownership stake in the company.

Real time search results are something that makes traditional search engines like Google and Yahoo interested. They don’t have real time search abilities and most sites have to be indexed before they can be searched. With real time search results, instant knowledge of an event can be sought. For example, if your Gmail account isn’t working, you can search on Twitter to see if you’re the only one experiencing the problem or if other people are having the same issue.

In an attempt to compete with Windows, Google announced an open source operating system for the PC that will be released later this year. The name will go along with the company’s already popular Chrome browser; Chrome OS.

It is intended to be a quick staring OS and the central focus is to support the Chrome browser. Applications will mostly run inside the browser. This will make the web a main component of the operating system; compared to Windows where the “desktop” is the main component of the operating system.

The idea of running applications inside the web browser is called “cloud computing.” Cloud computing is where the computer has a connection to the internet at all times and data is stored “in the cloud” (remotely) and the information processing happens between the browser and remote servers. This is how many applications on the iPhone run.

Chrome OS will be initially meant for netbooks and will begin being installed on new netbooks by the second half of 2010. While it will take that long for computers to already come with the OS built in, the code for Chrome OS will be released under an open source license by the end of 2009.

“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. [...] Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates,” said a blog post from Google.

If you look at all the things we already do through the internet browser, like check our email, play on Facebook applications, or listen to Pandora while we’re working, you can easily see how a company would want to get into a project like Google is taking on.