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Google Partners With Twitter For Search

Posted by samzenpus on from the tracking-your-tweet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the Google blog, it has partnered up with Twitter to bring tweets into its search results in the next few months. While this is exciting news, how the feature is going to present itself is a huge question. Indiblogger presents a comprehensive list of how it should be. From the article, the points discussed are: relevance of tweets with the search term, twitter and Google advertising, even a Google-Twitter API."

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  1. Response to Bing? by TwistedGreen · · Score: 2, Informative

    That was fast. Yesterday Bing announced they were going to integrate realtime Twitter and Facebook status updates into search. Competition is good, but Bing will have to find a better strategy.

  2. Re:Just let me turn it off. by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 4, Informative

    If in doubt, GiveMeBackMyGoogle.com has succeeded in stripping out results from many "sponsored" domains and aggregating sites for a good long time. I expect they'll list twitter as one of the blocks before long.

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  3. Just adds more noise.. by owlnation · · Score: 2, Informative

    This does not seem to be a good thing. I find that Google already brings up far too much noise in the form of forum posts. All this does is add a whole new level of noise.

    I dare say Demi Moore will find this useful, but I do not want this at all. I guess I now have to add a "-twitter" along with the "-ebay -amazon -wikipedia", etc qualifiers in order to actually find something of value.

    1. Re:Just adds more noise.. by tonycheese · · Score: 2, Informative

      I completely disagree with the idea of "forum noise" unless I'm misunderstanding you somehow. My searches very often land me on a useful forum page somewhere. For example, if I'm looking up an answer to a question related to a game or technical help with software, I will more often than not end up on a forum where people have discussed or are discussing the issue. Of course, if you are also adding -wikipedia to your searches, we are working in two completely different planes of existence.
      For twitter, though, I do agree with the sentiment that there should be an option to disable it.

  4. Re:Please go away by Nihixul · · Score: 2, Informative

    While I'm hardly a Twitter devotee, I don't think it's fair to measure the value of Twitter's service during the Iran election fallout by whether or not it actually led to a regime change.