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I wasn't a huge fan of seeing them in the SERPs back in the day; hopefully Google has an opt-out. I wouldn't mind if somehow it was integrated into Google News

by jarcoal 12y ago

I wasn't a huge fan of seeing them in the SERPs back in the day; hopefully Google has an opt-out. I wouldn't mind if somehow it was integrated into Google News; that could be cool.

sparkzilla 12y ago
The signal (actual news) to noise (opinions, comments, satire) is very high so adding Twitter to news is probably not a good idea.
- jaredsohn 12y ago
  I think you mean "very low"
  - sparkzilla 12y ago
    Yup. I meant "extremely low"
myko 12y ago
I feel the complete opposite - I used to Google for specific tweets I remembered seeing and to help find tweets relating to current events. Google was much better about showing me the stuff I wanted to see than the actual Twitter site! I'm really excited to have this back.
- codingdave 12y ago
  .. which is exactly why an opt-out would be a good solution. People can see what they want, and rbing in tweets when/if appropriate.
  - ramidarigaz 12y ago
    Worst case, I bet someone will make a chrome plugin to purge twitter results from search.
asuffield 12y ago
Does -site:twitter.com count as an "opt-out"?
Nicholas_C 12y ago
>I wouldn't mind if somehow it was integrated into Google News; that could be cool. I've wanted to build a site that mixes news feeds with tweets about said news. Some news sites have weak twitter streams to the side but it would be cool to have something more immersive.
- mcintyre1994 12y ago
  You might find reddit live interesting, it does a pretty good job of this imo. For example, https://www.reddit.com/live/u9z0oa5c4jud/ https://www.reddit.com/live/u9z0oa5c4jud/ and http://www.reddit.com/live/u7qtz12ybb74 http://www.reddit.com/live/u7qtz12ybb74 Together with being crowd sourced it's a really fresh take on breaking news.
ProAm 12y ago
Its going to be heavily censored anyway, Twitter has an excessive amount of trolls, harassment and negative tweets in regards to any major social news event. There is no way Google will let that hit the search results.
jpalomaki 12y ago
Wonder what is more valuable: showing tweets along the search results or being able to use them to rank other search results? Especially for stuff that is happening right now, tweets probably contain pretty good information on what are the most relevant sources of information. And since the text part is show short, it is easier to match what this tweet is related to.

by jarcoal 12y ago

I wasn't a huge fan of seeing them in the SERPs back in the day; hopefully Google has an opt-out. I wouldn't mind if somehow it was integrated into Google News; that could be cool.

sparkzilla 12y ago

The signal (actual news) to noise (opinions, comments, satire) is very high so adding Twitter to news is probably not a good idea.

jaredsohn 12y ago
I think you mean "very low"
- sparkzilla 12y ago
  Yup. I meant "extremely low"

myko 12y ago

I feel the complete opposite - I used to Google for specific tweets I remembered seeing and to help find tweets relating to current events. Google was much better about showing me the stuff I wanted to see than the actual Twitter site! I'm really excited to have this back.

codingdave 12y ago
.. which is exactly why an opt-out would be a good solution. People can see what they want, and rbing in tweets when/if appropriate.
- ramidarigaz 12y ago
  Worst case, I bet someone will make a chrome plugin to purge twitter results from search.

asuffield 12y ago

Does -site:twitter.com count as an "opt-out"?

Nicholas_C 12y ago

>I wouldn't mind if somehow it was integrated into Google News; that could be cool. I've wanted to build a site that mixes news feeds with tweets about said news. Some news sites have weak twitter streams to the side but it would be cool to have something more immersive.

mcintyre1994 12y ago
You might find reddit live interesting, it does a pretty good job of this imo. For example, https://www.reddit.com/live/u9z0oa5c4jud/ https://www.reddit.com/live/u9z0oa5c4jud/ and http://www.reddit.com/live/u7qtz12ybb74 http://www.reddit.com/live/u7qtz12ybb74 Together with being crowd sourced it's a really fresh take on breaking news.

ProAm 12y ago

Its going to be heavily censored anyway, Twitter has an excessive amount of trolls, harassment and negative tweets in regards to any major social news event. There is no way Google will let that hit the search results.

jpalomaki 12y ago

Wonder what is more valuable: showing tweets along the search results or being able to use them to rank other search results? Especially for stuff that is happening right now, tweets probably contain pretty good information on what are the most relevant sources of information. And since the text part is show short, it is easier to match what this tweet is related to.