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Maybe I'm missing something. Twitter no longer provides Google a firehose feed, though I'm unsure where the breakdown originated. But Google does index Twitter

Maybe I'm missing something. Twitter no longer provides Google a firehose feed, though I'm unsure where the breakdown originated. But Google does index Twitter and includes results from it. Google+ results get a higher ranking, and that's the issue, right? From somebody outside the social media echo chamber (i.e. a user, not a maven), this seems like a tempest in a teapot. I'd welcome some elaboration.

soumyadeb 15y ago
If you are logged into google, google knows who you are. It will produce results from your Google+ network even if that information is not public. It can't do that for twitter. It doesn't know your twitter ID, nor does it have access to your twitter network. It can crawl all the twitter pages just as it crawls the rest of the web but that may not be as relevant as the search results from your network (and hence rightly may be ranked lower). If twitter wants to appear alongside your Google+ results, they would have to open up their twitter social graph to google (or any other search engine) so that google knows who you are and can produce results accordingly. As a user I think this is good. I don't like the idea of my data being held hostage by sites.
- wmf 15y ago
  You can link Twitter to Google under "other profiles" in G+. They could also use OAuth to get your friends.
- groks 15y ago
  Google knows who you are on Twitter if you tell it: https://plus.google.com/connectedaccounts https://plus.google.com/connectedaccounts And because Twitter is largely public, Google knows who you follow and will show tweets and links in serps. Has done for some time now. You can tell Google who you are on github, but I haven't noticed any interesting search results. You right about password protected content though. You can tell Google who you are on Facebook but it can't crawl most of the data.
  - soumyadeb 15y ago
    Great. People have all the more reason to link the accounts now. I just did.
yanw 15y ago
Twitter pulled the plug on Google's firehose access which led Google to shutter Realtime search: http://searchengineland.com/google-realtime-search-the-aftermath-of-the-google-twitter-split-84794 http://searchengineland.com/google-realtime-search-the-after... It is a tempest in a teapot.

soumyadeb 15y ago

If you are logged into google, google knows who you are. It will produce results from your Google+ network even if that information is not public. It can't do that for twitter. It doesn't know your twitter ID, nor does it have access to your twitter network. It can crawl all the twitter pages just as it crawls the rest of the web but that may not be as relevant as the search results from your network (and hence rightly may be ranked lower). If twitter wants to appear alongside your Google+ results, they would have to open up their twitter social graph to google (or any other search engine) so that google knows who you are and can produce results accordingly. As a user I think this is good. I don't like the idea of my data being held hostage by sites.

wmf 15y ago
You can link Twitter to Google under "other profiles" in G+. They could also use OAuth to get your friends.
groks 15y ago
Google knows who you are on Twitter if you tell it: https://plus.google.com/connectedaccounts https://plus.google.com/connectedaccounts And because Twitter is largely public, Google knows who you follow and will show tweets and links in serps. Has done for some time now. You can tell Google who you are on github, but I haven't noticed any interesting search results. You right about password protected content though. You can tell Google who you are on Facebook but it can't crawl most of the data.
- soumyadeb 15y ago
  Great. People have all the more reason to link the accounts now. I just did.

yanw 15y ago

Twitter pulled the plug on Google's firehose access which led Google to shutter Realtime search: http://searchengineland.com/google-realtime-search-the-aftermath-of-the-google-twitter-split-84794 http://searchengineland.com/google-realtime-search-the-after... It is a tempest in a teapot.