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Twitter and Google – how it should be
Google, the search engine giant is now going to include tweets in its search results according to a post on the Google blog. According to the report Google will be working out a way to include tweets in its search results in the next few months. Personally this is a rather welcoming move since now ‘Googlers’ can also get live data. While totally excited to see how it really shapes out, here’s my thoughts (and queries) on how the feature should be.
- Tweets are like blog posts minus the length. Thus like blog posts, every tweet has a certain level of relevance attached to it. For instance, I wouldnt want to see a bunch of tweets by a heart broken girl while searching for love quotes. Thus, relevance is a matter of concern here.
- Some amount of stress must be given on re-tweets and Tweetbacks. After all, the best and the brightest get that.
- Is tweet based advertising next on the horizon?
- Images (and possible others forms of media) should also be included in the search.
- Since tweets are updated every microsecond, indexing can be a major headache. So Google should look into that as well.
- A re-tweet button on the search results page?
- A search API for third party apps like TweetDeck would be nice.
- Are tweets going to be SEO friendly from now on?
What else do you think should be included in the new Google mash-up of web and tweet search? Drop in your thoughts here.
What people have to tweet in common:
Related posts:
Going through that list:
1) How do you know that they’re not relevant? Maybe they’re posting snippets of poetry. Relevance is relative
2) Sounds like normal “page rank” and linking on Google. I think people have already been trying to exploit it (I’ve got an empty twitter account apart from a “bagsie my name” post and I still got half-a-dozen Russians trying to follow me in the first week)
3) Isn’t it already here? The whole reason companies are using Twitter is advertising to the “cool” crowd. Also, see point 2 above.
4) It looks like they already are: http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&um=1&q=site:twitpic.com&sa=N&start=20&ndsp=20
6) Sounds like a mess waiting to happen with things being re-tweeted when they don’t need to be just because someone has an easy link to click (or automated and abused by spammers)
Since tweets are updated every microsecond, indexing can be a major headache. So Google should look into that as well.
I’m sure google is really excited to receive this invaluable advice
This is about as desirable as putting in more ads.
“Some amount of stress must be given on re-tweets and Tweetbacks. After all, the best and the brightest get that.”
The best and the brightest are probably more concerned with good writing, and don’t care at all about ‘re-tweets’.
Also, it’s ‘those’ for plurals, usually.
Oh, comments are moderated. We know how that’s going to go down. Sigh. Tweet, tweet.
@IBBoard:
1) I totally agree with you. Just like Google gives the most relevant web pages to your search, I would like similar relevant tweets as well unlike some other search engines which tend to deviate from what I searched while presenting the matching web pages.
2) Security is a different concern and frankly I haven’t pointed that out on this post but thanks for bringing up the topic. What I meant to impose was that the best tweets get the most tweetbacks or re-tweets so why not use that parameter?
3) Yup that’s there but how about adding Adsense and Adwords to it?
@pete:
Indexing a webpage by Google take around 2-3 days, so I suppose they have to make a new system.
@joshua:
Thank you for teaching me english. And now that everyone can see your comment, I hope you can sleep tonight.
yes, of course they have to make a new system, that’s why they’re entering a partnership with twitter, so they can have access to their database instead of having to crawl their site. they’re way ahead of you
@pete:
Thanks for the invaluable piece of info!