Google and Twitter Team Up (Well, Kind Of)

Just saw this come up on Twitter from the Huffington Post. Search engine giant, Google just announced they have reach an agreement with social media site, Twitter, that will allow Google to include Twitter updates in the search results.

Google's VP of Search Products and User Experience, Marissa Mayer, wrote this in a blog post on the official Google blog:

"At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged — real-time updates like those on Twitter have appeared not only as a way for people to communicate their thoughts and feelings, but also as an interesting source of data about what is happening right now in regard to a particular topic.

Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you'll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information."

 I'm curious to see how this changes the way search information comes up in a search when Google gets it up and going in the next few months.  Who knows...you may even be seeing your own Twitter updates coming up on Google.