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Tweets To Appear In Google Search Results
mpicpp writes with news that Google will now begin showing tweets alongside search results. Mobile users searching via the Android/iOS apps or through the browser will start seeing the tweets immediately, while the desktop version is "coming shortly." The tweets will only be available for the searches in English to start, but Twitter says they'll be adding more languages soon.
How do I turn this off?
Linear time is now obsolete.
Companies like Google do this to legitimize another company's business. I've been using the internet for quite some time now and I've seen loads of companies/websites come and go. But with all this integration of facebook/twitter/youtube/linkedin shit into apps and other websites, it makes me wonder what happens when those sites go out of fashion (out of fad). Or is the internet mature enough now that websites/comanies have stopped coming and going.
Heck, even Slashdot participates in this with those 4 symbols near the article summary.
Worst decision they could ever make... Now we will have terrible search results as they will show us a bunch of tweets instead of the content we actually want to find.
something to shorten peoples short attention spans even more.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
I think Qwant ( https://www.qwant.com/ ) does it already for ages.
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sad if it's true, but G is known for their two fetishes: user experience, tempered/trumped by making money. therefore twitting our search results is probably a sad joke.
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Emotive and smug one liners at best. No serious discussion on any topic is possible. The closest you get is oft out of context quotes under stoic photos of someone staring off into space. Twitter has its place, but not for anyone searching for actual information. You fail, Google.
Seriously, I can't think of anything less helpful. When I use google, I'm looking for information or researching something (that can't be explained in twitters character limits).
If there's no off switch, then it makes googles search less useful and more annoying
I have come to the conclusion that a way to specify search criteria should now prominently be featured on that Google search page.
I am aware that I can specify these criteria after a search has been performed. What I need is to be accorded a chance NOT to see results I am not interested in (like tweets), at all.
Am I the only one that seems to remember that GOOGLE ALREADY HAD THIS FEATURE years ago. Back in the earlier days of Buzz, your Buzz account could be connected to a Twitter account. Google would pull friend's tweets on a particular topic, and show them intermixed with search results. This was just another one of the brazzilion tweeks Google has added/removed/fuckedwith/whoknowswhatelse over the years, and I'm quite honestly surprised to see it make a comeback.
... yeah, bleah. On the other hand, whole "news" stories are written about various clowns' reactions on Twitter.
Twitter tweets are, in my estimation 95+% useless garbage. I hope my search results don't get polluted with this crap.
Why is this useful?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I fucking despise twitter, but sometimes I want to search for something trending on twitter or something from a specific person on twitter and I find their search interface impossible (and you can't even go straight to it without being confronted with their login page trying to talk you into getting an account).
As long as it can be enabled/disabled simply and it isn't obnoxious (maybe list it separately from the main contents), I'm good with it. It would actually be handy.
Please no! When I want to search newsgroup contents, I'll tell them so, ditto for tweets.
The search results are already pretty much useless right now, because they show me what they 'think' I might mean instead of what I actually typed in the field.
I have to enclose every fucking word between quotes, otherwise they get ignored an they show me Kardashian or Rihanna crap.
At least, assuming these tweets are ranked appropriately.
Down near the bottom, with the ad spammers.
But really... what the fuck, Google? The most "useful" kinds of tweets are the ones who reference the authoritative material that you'd want to see instead of any tweet about it. As a means to add to the page rank of good (i.e. referenced) pages tweets might be valuable, but otherwise twitter activity is pretty much the definition of irrelevant.
Log in or piss off.
Their initial page load is only about ten times as long as Google. I can't imagine why I've never heard of them before, and expect to never hear of them again.
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I get that most people here doesn't give a damn about the blue bird, but everyone is reacting like we're going to have our search filled with tweet.
I've looked up in my history for all the latest google search I did in the last week and I hardly see how most (any) of them would give me tweet result ("Matlab plotyy axis scale"?).
On the other hand, let's say that I'm a 13 years old girls who's googling the latest gossip about Taylor Swift, I get that, in some cases, tweet could become an insightful result.
I say let's give it a chance and see how it goes. Furthermore, Google Search have always been "customizable" and I'm sure us folk would have no problem deactivating tweets from a search (-youtube anyone?).
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I really don't give a damn how many useless pages a search engine can return in 1.344821 seconds. I care about relevance. Google has slowly eroded the relevance of their returned pages either by adding useless content (tweets) or removing useful search modes (e.g. simple regex).
I'd happily pay a small monthly or annual fee to support a search engine that will return highly relevant pages after a few minutes or even longer if it allows more complicated search and context expressions.
I haven't used google in a while just because of their invasive nature. I just tried a search for "Mustang" on google, over half the initial visible results page is ads for me to buy a car. DuckDuckGo, not so much. Sticking with DDG. Google has gone downhill a lot.
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It's about time someone made this available. Of course this someone had to be Google.
Man I'm super happy with my decision to start backing away from Google services after that whole G+ integration and real name crap went down. I feel like Google is just going to keep going down hill from here...
More clutter to ignore. Will AdBlocker stop these?
The CIA created google
So, from a tourist perspective, i can see where this could help. You search for Restaurants, and think, OK ill try Italian. You look for a specific restaurant, and it may have a decent rating on something, but a recent tweet could be "just saw a dead mouse in the lobster tank at X restaurant" This is something i would want to see before going to a shitty restaurant.