Twitter is always on the forefront of breaking news. As soon as anything happens, it spreads over Twitter like wildfire. Twitter is often the first place check to find the most recent links, discussions etc.
In the past Google actually had an agreement with Twitter to have a real-time feed of related tweets appearing in the search results, but that expired in July 2011. These Tweets were often the most relevant search results.
Now though Google is trying to make its search engine more personalised for people logged into Google+, where results that your friends may have +1’d or images they’ve uploaded to their profile from a particular travel destination might start popping up in among the image search. They call this update “Search Plus Your World” (SPY World?). Read the rest of this entry »
