at least they're being honest (sort of) and recognizing shortcomings.
TJ Kelly
· 6 months ago
And I'm glad they're (apparently) considering a non buy-out version of "working together." Like most, I don't want Google to buy Twitter, but also like most, I recognize the potential benefits in a close relationship. This could be good news.
James
· 6 months ago
Hey, I got a feeling Twitter really isn't in it for the business aspects, but for the feeling of achievement and creating a hit application. If they partner with Google (who is all business), they will make a tremendous amount of money. I kind of want this partnership to happen, Google should only handle the aspect of monetizing while Twitter folks handle the application.
I hope twitter forges ahead, Google could be the U.S. to Japan's WWII Twitter...just waking a sleeping Giant.
Iaax Page
· 6 months ago
Is cooperation still a word in the google dictionary?
I would not be so sure, and do not get me wrong I admire and respect google as much as most of the people out there who claim Google is the Internet. I just think they have had to little too much of themselves, someone in Google believes they are greater than what they are, and that is changing the "Do no evil" company into a "We can do it all" company.
Duane Charles
· 6 months ago
Sounds like google is keeping its competition close. Circling for a weakness.Then going in for the kill when they find one.
Marco
· 6 months ago
They definitely need to make an acquisition here. For both companies sakes...I don't think Twitter is truly equipped to manage and monetize the search process, but Google certainly can't compete with Twitter in realtime search. Adding realtime search to Google services, still doesn't compare to the community driven effect of Twitter.
CNastie
· 6 months ago
Suits are not worn at Twitter.
DJ
· 6 months ago
I think it's a little misleading to suggest that Google is not good at searching the web in 'real time' where Twitter is. Twitter searches are not searching the web - they are searching the Twitter stream - which is an extremely small percentage of web content, and in fact, it's an extremely small percentage of content that is put out in 'real time'. Twitter is good at searching itself. Somehow, I trust that Google is going to figure out how to do that.
barringtonarch
· 6 months ago
i agree, Twitter is still only searching itself. Searching the entire web in real time is a completely different problem and one i Google is better equipped to handle at this stage.
Rex Pechler
· 6 months ago
What kind of article is this? I was hoping to see some details about a partnership =(
J
· 6 months ago
Don't you mean t-shirts? I don't the Twitter dudes wear suits...
J
· 6 months ago
That's...I don't think the Twitter dudes wear suits...
Ant
· 6 months ago
The fact that Eric Schmidt (Google) is willing to admit a weakness shows great potential for overcoming a weakness.
Antoine williams
· 6 months ago
Twitter can improve as Google can improve.
Arron Davies
· 6 months ago
I thought that twitter was teaming up are being bought my apple!
com'on mashable old news!
NC
· 6 months ago
@Duane and @stanley - I totally agree with you. Not all status updates go through Twitter, they never will. Google will figure out and own "real" real-time search.
mistermartin75
· 6 months ago
Twitter's real-time search is great, but it's limit to Twitter. If Google would be using real-time search, they'd probably need three additional datacentres.
Leslie
· 6 months ago
Seems to me this is part of the big PR campaign to prevent anti-trust lawsuits...
Jared O'Toole
· 6 months ago
Not sure if twitter search can really out do google search. But its an interesting battle. I think theres room for both as they each have unique qualities. The newest content isnt always the best and most informative. But some kind of partnership to mold it all together would be cool.
enigmafon
· 6 months ago
1-Google already indexes most tweets in realtime. 2-Google is increasing the frequency their bots scan sites. Everytime i make a post in my blog, the googlebots get alerted by RSS and show up to scan the new content.
Google already has the cpu power and technology to do near realtime scanning, and they will do it.
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I got a feeling Twitter really isn't in it for the business aspects, but for the feeling of achievement and creating a hit application. If they partner with Google (who is all business), they will make a tremendous amount of money. I kind of want this partnership to happen, Google should only handle the aspect of monetizing while Twitter folks handle the application.
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I would not be so sure, and do not get me wrong I admire and respect google as much as most of the people out there who claim Google is the Internet. I just think they have had to little too much of themselves, someone in Google believes they are greater than what they are, and that is changing the "Do no evil" company into a "We can do it all" company.
com'on mashable old news!
2-Google is increasing the frequency their bots scan sites. Everytime i make a post in my blog, the googlebots get alerted by RSS and show up to scan the new content.
Google already has the cpu power and technology to do near realtime scanning, and they will do it.
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