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Twitter Comes Out Swinging Against Google's Personalized Search

Posted by Soulskill on from the social-networking-drama dept.

Meshach writes "Google's release of the new 'Search Plus Your World' feature has elicited harsh words from Twitter's general counsel (who used to work with Google). He claims that the changes will make information harder to find for users and be bad news for news publishers. Some analysts are wondering if this is a prelude to a legal battle similar to Microsoft's bundling of IE."

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  1. Re:I don't see the problem at all! Am I just dumb? by bs0d3 · · Score: 4, Informative

    twitter sells the right to mine their data, google stopped paying so twitter locked them out. twitter still does business with bing, bing also has a deal with facebook. google is allowing themselves to their own data and also bing sucks

  2. I am totally perplexed by Taco+Cowboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    What has Google's offer of "'Search Plus Your World" got to do with Microsoft's bundling of IE ?

    Can someone educate me, please ??

    --
    Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
    1. Re:I am totally perplexed by crutchy · · Score: 5, Informative

      bundling of personalized search into a conventional search engine could be construed as anti-competitive in the personalized search market.

      twitter and facebook would probably consider themselves players in the personalized search market, so the assumption is that they may challenge google for monopolizing personal search that users might otherwise currently use twitter and facebook for.

      i don't see the point in telling people how many bits of toast i'm making for breakfast on twatter, facecrap is a crock of shit for obvious reasons, and spoogel results are getting less relevant with each passing day. i can only hope they all implode into each other in an epic court battle.

  3. Re:I don't see the problem at all! Am I just dumb? by Dahamma · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's actually pretty irrelevant anyway - Twitter has never had a business model. They just have no clue how to make money.

    The only reason they are bitching is that they are worried investors will figure this out before they IPO and the employees cash out before they go down the drain...

  4. Re:Search and Social Network Bubbling by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 4, Informative

    So "disable" it ... In chrome : ctrl-shift-n + start typing your google search.

    done/done

  5. Re:I've been waiting for personalized search forev by diegocg · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can disable the indexing of your web history, effectively disabling "personalized search" at the same time.

  6. Re:I've been waiting for personalized search forev by jdgeorge · · Score: 3, Informative

    If I recall correctly, Google no longer provides search of Twitter posts due to Twitter's deal to support Google's real-time search expired (presumably because Google didn't want to pay as much as Twitter wanted.)

    Apparently, Google currently can't index Twitter's own real-time activity due to lack of an agreement, and now Twitter is incensed that Google has the audacity to index Google's own real-time activity. Outrageous!