Google co-founder Sergey Brin said Google did not try to buy Twitter in a surprise visit onstage here at the Web 2.0 Summit Oct. 22. Brin also shared his thoughts on Microsoft Bing, the search engine gunning for Google’s 65 percent market share; the Microsoft-Yahoo deal; Chrome for Mac; Google Book Search; and the alleged Google Phone. Unbidden, Brin said Yahoo was doing interesting things in search and that it was a shame the company plans to abdicate search to Microsoft, which agreed to power Yahoo’s searches with the Bing infrastructure.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founder
Sergey Brin said Google did not try to buy Twitter, casting off reports to that
affect in a surprise visit onstage here at the Web 2.0 Summit Oct. 22.
Web 2.0 Summit Co-Host
John Battelle asked Brin if Google tried to acquire Twitter, the microblo…