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> That has nothing to do with why Google excludes content on twitter.com itself. Um, they don't. That's not what this is about. You need to research the actual
by nknight 15y ago
> That has nothing to do with why Google excludes content on twitter.com itself.
Um, they don't. That's not what this is about. You need to research the actual feature that's causing controversy, because it's not "Twitter doesn't show up in search", not even close.
- abalone 15y agoThe People & Pages feature. On Google search. Is excluding twitter.com content. Example: http://parislemon.com/post/15682237911/twitter-keeps-right-on-responding-to-search http://parislemon.com/post/15682237911/twitter-keeps-right-o...
- nknight 15y agoSo what? That's not part of the standard search. Since when is Google not allowed to advertise its own services alongside standard search results? What's next, do you whine that Bing has links to MSN and Hotmail? Twitter actually contaminates ordinary search results on its site with paid tweets, and you're mad Google puts some Google+ content off to one side? WTF?
- abalone 15y agoOh, it's definitely part of standard search now. Schmidt said Twitter content wasn't included because they didn't have "permission" to index it. That's false. They are purposefully excluding it -- a point of fact which I'm glad to see you acknowledge now.
- nknight 15y agoNo, it's not part of standard search. And since you seem to know everything that goes on between Twitter and Google, perhaps you could share with us the documents showing Google has the permission it needs to include Twitter results in this very not-standard-search feature? Edit: By the way, are you a lawyer? If not, even given your apparent insider knowledge of Google and Twitter goings-on, how do you know your legal understanding is correct?
- abalone 15y agoSure, I'd be happy to. Here it is: http://twitter.com/robots.txt http://twitter.com/robots.txt