Twitter Comes Out Swinging Against Google's Personalized Search 186
Meshach writes "Google's release of the new 'Search Plus Your World' feature has elicited harsh words from Twitter's general counsel (who used to work with Google). He claims that the changes will make information harder to find for users and be bad news for news publishers. Some analysts are wondering if this is a prelude to a legal battle similar to Microsoft's bundling of IE."
Re:I don't see the problem at all! Am I just dumb? (Score:5, Informative)
I am totally perplexed (Score:4, Informative)
What has Google's offer of "'Search Plus Your World" got to do with Microsoft's bundling of IE ?
Can someone educate me, please ??
Re:I don't see the problem at all! Am I just dumb? (Score:4, Informative)
It's actually pretty irrelevant anyway - Twitter has never had a business model. They just have no clue how to make money.
The only reason they are bitching is that they are worried investors will figure this out before they IPO and the employees cash out before they go down the drain...
Re:I am totally perplexed (Score:5, Informative)
twitter and facebook would probably consider themselves players in the personalized search market, so the assumption is that they may challenge google for monopolizing personal search that users might otherwise currently use twitter and facebook for.
i don't see the point in telling people how many bits of toast i'm making for breakfast on twatter, facecrap is a crock of shit for obvious reasons, and spoogel results are getting less relevant with each passing day. i can only hope they all implode into each other in an epic court battle.
Re:Search and Social Network Bubbling (Score:5, Informative)
So "disable" it ... In chrome : ctrl-shift-n + start typing your google search.
done/done
Re:I've been waiting for personalized search forev (Score:4, Informative)
You can disable the indexing of your web history [google.com], effectively disabling "personalized search" at the same time.
Re:I've been waiting for personalized search forev (Score:4, Informative)
If I recall correctly, Google no longer provides search of Twitter posts due to Twitter's deal to support Google's real-time search expired [cnn.com] (presumably because Google didn't want to pay as much as Twitter wanted.)
Apparently, Google currently can't index Twitter's own real-time activity due to lack of an agreement, and now Twitter is incensed that Google has the audacity to index Google's own real-time activity. Outrageous!