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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?
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.
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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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.
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.
From the context of the rest of the conversation I can almost always figure out what a stupid Slashdot comment meant.
OTOH, tweets are virtually impossible for me to parse, because everyone's using lots of pronouns to stay under 140 characters, and "twitter threads" really don't show me "ok this guy was responding to this tweet, which was a response to that tweet, which was a response to something that chick said, so the 'she' in this last tweet is probably that chick..."
For example, every time I go to Fivethirtyeight.com there's a list of tweets the Fivethirtyeight authors are making. I can generally figure out what half of them mean. Today it's up to 3/4 or so, because Enten just sent out a barrage of 6 on the same topic and one of them said "this is the topic I am talking about," rather then the twitter-user's traditional reliance on everyone knowing precisely what they're talking about right now, and therefore not including any context becsides a timestamp and the twitter handles of the people they're interacting with.
This will probably be incredibly useful for a small set of users (ie: twitter addicts who get the lingo; marketers figuring out everything said about their boss, etc.) and be completely useless for damn near anyone else.
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.
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?).
Elok