Twitter, Google Strike Deal To Include Status Updates In Search Results

Following hot on the heels of Bing's announcement that it has struck a deal with Twitter and Facebook to include status updates in its searches, Google's just announced a Twitter deal of its own.

In a blog post, Google said that it would be including Twittter updates in its own search results. Google's Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience, wrote:

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.

Bing's Twitter search has already gone live, but Google's will apparently be rolled out in the coming months.

Comments

[gvscmr]

12:07 PM on 10/22/2009

Twitter is nothing more than a flash in the pan... It will take just one news story where a woman is st@lked and r@ped and even possibly mur_dered with the investigation linking the crime to Tweets from the victim, to send it down the drain. Why? Because those "Tweets" revealed the woman's whereabouts and habits enabling the criminal to commit the crime.

Twitter is nothing more than SMS for the web, but those SMS messages can be read by anyone in the world. So much for privacy, especially now that all the search engines are involved.

With all the der@nged criminals out there, why would you want your every move exposing you to danger blasted all over the web?

[VZambrano]

11:56 AM on 10/22/2009

wonder if it'll be better than the current twitter search, which is rather confusing to me since it lives inside my own twitter page, thus sometimes seeming like my own stream.

[Meg Wherrity]

11:59 AM on 10/22/2009

Good point.

[lpham0027]

11:56 AM on 10/22/2009

I love Twitter.

[SteveS]

01:01 AM on 10/22/2009

And note that when they were caught, they said their free speech was violated.

[SteveS]

01:00 AM on 10/22/2009

Please note that you can not trust a twitter account unless the account is verified.

http://hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15188

Republicans caught creating twitter accounts under Dem names in order to attack progressive reform such as health care. Twitter caught them for now but....

[Kuuba]

01:33 AM on 10/22/2009

Not surprising republicans do this.

[goodog]

08:29 PM on 10/21/2009

Gawd... I hope this doesn't mean google will be serving up tweets in our search results.

This is what I don't like about the media's fascination with Twitter. It's not REALLY the content they're so excited about. It's the medium.

The medium, Twitter itself, is the news.

I think the Onion was an apt observer with its joke last week about Western civilization hitting rock bottom, saying it cannot possibly get worse.

"Experts predict that the penultimate catastrophe will occur at approximately 7:15 p.m. Thursday night, when the social networking tool Twitter will be used to communicate a series of ideas so banal they will instantaneously negate the three centuries of the Renaissance."

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nadir_of_western_civilization_to

Soooooooooooooooo funny, the Onion... and ironic, too.

[Lochmon]

08:36 PM on 10/21/2009

Speaking of the Onion, they hit a new high for packing ridicule into just three sentences:

http://www.theonion.com/content/amvo/republican_site_crashes

[goodog]

09:36 PM on 10/21/2009

that's veeeeeeeeeeeeery funny.

[Lochmon]

08:14 PM on 10/21/2009

All your tweets are belong to us.

[Kuuba]

01:35 AM on 10/22/2009

Use www.scroogle.org to do google searches, GREAT site.

[TJCole]

07:52 PM on 10/21/2009

Google and Facebook had better fix this hacking when Facebook asks for passwords and then Gmail is infected and no longer works and other Google tool bar apps...

[LightShadow62]

06:24 PM on 10/21/2009

Twitter: Social networking tool or an enabler of self-important tools?

I think the latter.

[Kuuba]

01:33 AM on 10/22/2009

Agreed, you can add ego booster to that.