Twitter CRAWLS to Google ON ITS KNEES, starts blowing content Twitter has crawled to Google to get Tweets displayed in the ad giant's search results once again. The micro-blabbing site previously had a deal with Mountain View to provide feeds of tweets directly within its search results. However, that two-year-long agreement ended in July 2011. Now, four years later, it's a different …
what is considered "relevant"? Is there a search option that excludes all "tweets"?
An enterprising programmer might want to make a search engine that does have that feature. Perhaps an even better programmer might make one that sends take down messages for every tweet that gets included in results.
I completely agree. If I'm searching in Google, I'm searching for documents. I'll be wanting to switch off or exclude other content type such as 'tweets'.
Thinking about it, I would also like to exclude Wikipedia results as well, which google results seem to have been well stuffed with for quite a while now ...
For all you hackers out there, would it be possible to setup a Twitter bot that searches google for information about Justin Bieber and then tweets a link to the first hit, causing Google to index it? A feedback loop of banality, if you will.
According to my calculations, if running on a fat pipe, BieberBot should consume all available planetary computational resources in about 6 months, and this will end with it either gaining self-awareness or just causing both Twitter and Google datacenters to melt down in a Chernobyl-style cataclysm.
A couple lines of PHP should be sufficient.
This isn't directly related to the news but I hate Twitter so much I thought I'd share it. I'm flying shortly with KLM, who've generally done a good job with their website, it must be said. As is now fashionable for airline companies you have to opt to pay to take luggage, though how anyone travelling for more than a couple of days expects to get away with just hand luggage is beyond me*. I get confirmation of my flight and my luggage allowance only to get another e-mail yesterday telling me I have no luggage. The website tells me I can in touch by Twitter or Facebook and even has dials estimating response times. I call and ask for confirmation: yes, you have paid for checked baggage and can ignore the e-mail. This annoys me and costs KLM money. If they spent more time fixing the communication between their systems and less on PR gimmicks like customer support via Twitter they'd provide better service and save money.
*I'm starting to avoid airlines that do this as it only seems to encourage people to try and carry everything, including the kitchen sink, as hand luggage, significantly slowing down boarding and not unusually involving bumps and scapes as people try cramming the stuff wherever they can.
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