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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. Bing Too by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Twitter cut deals with Bing and Google.

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  2. WTF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why the f**k would I want to have mindless twits mixed in with my search results?

    1. Re:WTF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      If you've been on the internet for a long while (read: > 5 minutes), you're already accustomed to mindless twits.

  3. Just let me turn it off. by Remloc · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As long as I can turn it off. Permanently in my login profile.

    I do not want the inane ramblings of some twittering teen-ager littering my Google results.

    1. Re:Just let me turn it off. by snspdaarf · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Twitter doesn't seem to be popular with teenagers.

      Probably because it is filled with "the inane ramblings are from the 25-40 crowd." I never thought I would say this, but, man, am I happy to be over 40!

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  4. Been covered on TWiG by RMH101 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Leo Laporte and This Week In Google covered this with an interview with Google.
    Basically it boils down to: Twitter results can be valuable for real-time, breaking news. Less so after the fact. If you googled for "Trafigura" a week or so ago, you wouldn't have seen much of interest. If you searched Twitter whilst it was breaking news of the injunction, it was full of info. Google are savvy with search and I'm sure they've got this all factored into PageRank already.

  5. Oh no! by dkf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's time for Twoogle!

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  6. Microsoft claimed no such thing by Animaether · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just because the press doesn't do their jobs anymore...

    Here's the Telegraph's article...
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/6401062/Microsofts-Bing-signs-landmark-deals-with-Twitter-and-Facebook.html

    I quote (emphasis mine):

    Both deals are understood to be non-exclusive, with rumours of similar conversations ongoing between Twitter and Google

    ( Ah, and yes, Facebook, too. The only 'surprising' thing is that /. didn't report on this, but does report on the Google deal, without even a reference to the Bing deal. )

  7. Please go away by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2, Insightful
    How long before Twitter becomes a has-been like Everquest, Myspace, Tron Guy, and that rabbit that balances pancakes on its head? Anyone got an estimate on the timeline? Don't these things usually take 18 months to complete?

    Oh yeah, right, twitter is a game-changer that can overthrow governments. Good job they did in Iran, wot?

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  8. Re:So, If I Google "Kayne West" by ShiningSomething · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of course, that will be your own fault for googling "Kanye West"

  9. Great... just great by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So Google's signal to noise ratio just dropped through the floor. Each day it'll now be indexing several million variations on "I just ate a delicious sandwich for lunch - yum!" and other such high-quality Twitter content.

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  10. wut u tkn bt? by uncanny · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I dont understand the point of all of this? How will joining twitter into google searches bring me more porn?

  11. Value by slashmojo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    and nothing of value was found..

    Twitter does have its (commercial) uses but there seems to be such an enormous amount of crap posted and 'retweeted' ad infinitum. I hope bing/google can reliably filter and sort it so only good stuff surfaces but I have my doubts.

  12. The dumbing down of Google by Animats · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Over the past two years, it seems that Google has been redesigning their search system for dumber and dumber users. They now seem to be targeting the room-temp IQ crowd.

    Google used to just suggest spelling corrections. Now, it applies them. If you don't want spelling correction, you must put the search term in quotes. This leads to results like the one for "ndia intellectual property", where NDIA is the National Defense Industrial Association. Google gives back mostly results about "India", not "NDIA". This happens on all searches where the term searched is near a common word.

    Then there's the missing word problem. It used to be that if you searched for several words, all the words had to be present. That's no longer true. Google will return results it likes that don't contain some of the words. If you want to insist that a word be present, you have to quote it.