Google Possibly Expanding Search Empire to Include Twitter
Category: InternetPosted: June 15, 2009 04:54PM
Author: CheeseMan42
It is rumored that Google will soon be launching a tool allowing users to search Twitter, and possibly other microblogs in the future. Despite the fact that Twitter has its own search engine, Google feels it can gather important data regarding popular trends, and perhaps other valuable information as well. The Twitter search engine isn't as robust as an offering from Google will likely be, as it only contains recent tweets with the relevant terms. Google will likely use various algorithms to keep track of the trends and search data based on such things as number of followers. I'm not entirely sure what can be gathered from such short messages, but then again I'm not the biggest search engine in the world.
