The company announced today that they will begin including Twitter updates in Google searches very soon. Here’s what company VP Marissa Mayer blogged:
At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged — real-time updates like those on Twitter have appeared not only as a way for people to communicate their thoughts and feelings, but also as an interesting source of data about what is happening right now in regard to a particular topic.
Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.
Should have expected this since Google bought Blogger which was founded by the same guy that started Twitter, but there better be a special button to include the Tweets otherwise we need a new search engine!!!! We know LIFERS hate Twitter – do you want a little of it in your Google???
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Oh bloody hell. I will boycott Google if they actually do this.
That post was funny. It was like Lifers were waiting 2 vent that twitter frustration
@ biskits, I second that!
who uses google anymore? bing.com!
thats gaaaaaaaay yoooo lol
nooooooooo
That would be terrible! They should include a button or a check mark that asks if you want to include it or not. Twitter is Ok, but it doesn’t rule my life, and I don’t want it to.
Guess I’ll go back to using yahoo or bing for searches.