Google, Bing to Include Your Tweets in Results
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: Google, Bing, Twitter, Deals | Themes: The Internet, Business
In a move that finally brings real time search to major search engines, Google and Bing have both announced deals with Twitter that will see updates from the microblogging site appear in results returned by both search engines.
Talk of search deals involving Twitter and both Bing and Google has been doing the rounds for months. However, with no official word, everything up until yesterday was considered nothing more than rumors.
Both Twitter and Google announced the partnership via their respective blogs, with Chief of Twitter Evan Williams paying homage to his 'friends' in Mountain View.
"Our friends down in Mountain View want to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful … As part of that effort, we've partnered with Google to index the entire world of public tweets as fast as possible and present them to their users in an organized and relevant fashion."
Similarly, Bing is adding to the celebrity tweets it already returns with search results. Now you won't just see about what celebs have to say about a certain topics, you'll see about what everyone has to say about it too!
Okay, first things first, do not panic. Google has yet to roll this out. In the blog post unveiling the partnership, the company said, " … we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results … we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months."
Bing is letting you try out the new feature right away by visiting www.bing.com/twitter. However, my search for 'Windows 7' returned a message informing me that, " Twitter search results are currently unavailable."
We can see some advantages. For example, Google's Marissa Meyer points out that next time you're looking for snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you'll find tweets from other users who are already there and able to provide the most accurate and up to date information. Once Google and Bing don't shove the tweets down people's throats, this could work.
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I´m ok with it as long as we have the option to exclude it from searches. I believe that foruns bolgs and now "twats" should be excluded from searching by allowing the use of options boxes. How many times do people loose searching information and getting blogs and forums, remember that a lot of people don´t know how to use simple commands in google like + - "" and others.
NO! Please god no!
The last thing I need when I'm searching for websites is carp from Twitter cluttering the results!
"Once Google and Bing don't shove the tweets down people's throats, this could work."
The internet marketers dreams have finally come true.Get ready for really useless results
I´m ok with it as long as we have the option to exclude it from searches. I believe that foruns bolgs and now "twats" should be excluded from searching by allowing the use of options boxes. How many times do people loose searching information and getting blogs and forums, remember that a lot of people don´t know how to use simple commands in google like + - "" and others.
Referring to people who use twitter as twats is getting old. I mean, I'm not saying they're not, I'm just saying the joke is exhausted. Branch out!
Why on earth would I want to search for Tweets? When I search on google I'm looking for information and I'm really going to hate sifting through nonsense in order to find information to source in my papers. They better make this optional or a separate page.
You think people's tweets are accurate and up to date? So many problems with that concept like first of all, people don't tweet about useful things like weather conditions. A more common tweet from a ski resort would be "Johnny just spilled the hot coca all over my brand new ski jacket!" or "OMG first time in snow, I never knew it was WHITE"
WTF would I want twitter updates in my searches? Mindless ramblings of idiots and what they are doing are not what I want to find out when I go search for something!
I still don't know to this day, why people actually use twitter. Must have brains the size of a bird.
Yeah this sounds like a terrible idea. I could see a 3rd column bar that displays trending topics based on twitter and google trends and related to the search (if applicable); but to include in the serps? FAIL.
I doubt there's enough information in most tweets to search them effectively.
great, more worthless junk i ha\/e to sift through.
The key here is "real time search". Yes, there should be an option to turn it off but having *current* (old tweets are already included in Google's web crawler search results) could be useful for searches regarding current news, for example.
There have been several cases recently where news has been broken first on Twitter - for example to do with a certain oil company's press-embargo just a week or so ago. For things like this Twitter definitely does have its benefits, it is not entirely made up of the "mindless ramblings of idiots" or "twats".
Yeah, way to go. More useless results, making search engines less functional! ... until a new engine come up and declares: "Just the info you need" or something like that.
with google add you already have chance to get malaware....
twitter would get it worse, cant imagine with useless myspace and facebook :\
I am outrage at the fact that you can get malaware for search because they pay google to be on top finds....
I tried Bing and its even worse (for my search at least)
I guess well go back to alta-vista and webcrawler
They could show just one tweeter result, according to respective importance meter, and people could search 'anything site:anywhere.com' for more tweets. But this tweeter idea could lead to more drastic changes, like 'don't show me results from this site, ever, on this computer (until cookies cleared) and on my account'. Maybe this kind of personalized search would do better.
The kind of exclusion I would gladly do sitewise is search from old searches of some people over some search engine that happened to be crawled by bots at the time. Come on, I'm searching you, why would you show me searches of someone else somewhere else that might even be based on your own older searches. Then people might want more and more to be signed in while searching google/bing.
I would guess they would have a separate search area for tweets like they have now for news, images and such..I hope.
NOOO!!!! not twiter....