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Google Search including Tweets

I've seen a lot of discussion on the web surrounding this post on Google's blog.

I do not doubt one bit that it will be beneficial to web users to index Tweets in and include results in searches but wouldn't there be a lot of noise?

Often when I use twitter and try to search for a topic of interest I find there are bunch of marketeers jump on board by including popular phrases in their tweets that are completely irrelevant. When I was stuck in traffic on the way to Glastonbury festival earlier this year I thought I might be able to find some insigh into what was going on by searching for other festival goers tweers but because of the noise that a popular topic brings, it provided little information as to what was going on with the traffic situation and entry into the festival.

To contradict what I just said about the noise on Google searches, however, will this product make for better searching of tweets? I near enough always find relevant results in my searches on Google search and maybe this is exactly what users of twitter need. A way to get a more relevant set of tweets for a search.

Another good article can be found here.

By Rick Vause

Look Out for Google Wave Invite Scams

There is a lot of hype on the web surrounding Google Wave invitations at the moment. If you are hunting for an invitation to Google's exciting new service please keep it in mind that the web allows anonymity and certain web publishers may use web hype to exploit users.

Please read here and here about Google Wave invitation scams. You may be better off until Google open Google Wave up for sign up.

By Rick Vause

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