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Why can't Google index Twitter posts just like it does everything else?
by Flemlord 18y ago
Why can't Google index Twitter posts just like it does everything else?
- wallflower 18y agoGoogle does not have access to the XMPP firehouse (all tweets, the public timeline). More importantly, Twitter posts do not neatly fit into the page-rank concept (# of followers does not always equate to authority). Summize got around this problem by not even trying to address it - e.g. most recent tweets are first. Twitter is probably more easily gamed and adding Twitter results to their standard search would probably dilute average AdWords CPC. Of course, the flip side of this is Twitter tweets won't be monetized as efficiently as Google keyword-based ads.