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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. Bing claimed exclusivity by bruce_the_loon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The funniest part is the news articles presenting the Bing partnership as an exclusive one.

    Bet Steve's tossing chairs now.

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  3. 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 Daengbo · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Exactly. I was upset enough when spammy blogs with duplicate content filled my search results, but now I wave to deal with one-line tweets, too? Ugh.

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  4. 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 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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  5. 140 chars - the holder of so much info by IBBoard · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great. I'm sure that with Twitter messages in the search results they'll just become so packed with information. After all, 140chars can hol<eof>

    1. Re:140 chars - the holder of so much info by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Funny

      Results 1 - 10 of about 368,000,000

      Cant reply im on the toilet right now LOL

  6. Re:This could be beneficial... by Rogerborg · · Score: 3, Funny
    britneyspears: im eatin a donut lol i now i shoodnt but there so delish
    britneyspears: donut stuck
    britneyspears: cant breeth
    britneyspears: srsly sum1 dial 9!1
    britneyspears: help mi u fckrz

    The entertainment world was rocked today by new of the untimely death of troubled diva Britney Spears...

    I think we may have different ideas on what "useful" means.

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  7. Who needs to search tweeter? To find what? by ponos · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Honestly, given the nature of the site and the kind of communication it promotes, I wonder whether there is any *original* information that can be found in there. I mean, great scientists, philosophers and artists did exchange letters in the past, but even if we're talking about some real geniuses, I don't see how the "tweet" format can ever contain anything more than shit. It's not easy to convey a properly argumented original thought in 160 characters... So, in the end I don't see why anyone would care to search tweeter data at all. Other maybe for the purpose of some obscure IgNobel-worthy research or in the case of stalkers following the hot star of the moment (when exactly did she pee? that is the question...).

    P.

  8. 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.