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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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    It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
  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?

  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 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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  4. 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