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.

Comments

Re:OK, but seriously...

[93 Escort Wagon]

How do I turn this off?

instructions are here.

Again?

[darkain]

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.

Aren't we a little fast on the hate switch?

[Eloking]

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?).