According to a new report, Google and Twitter
have struck a deal that would provide would
enable the search giant to populate search
results for tweets the moment they are
published.
From Bloomberg :
"In the first half of this year, tweets will start
to be visible in Google's search results as
soon as they're posted, thanks to a deal
giving the Web company access to Twitter's
firehose, the stream of data generated by the
microblogging service's 284 million users,
people with knowledge of the matter said
Wednesday. Google previously had to crawl
Twitter's site for the information, which will
now come automatically from Twitter."
Bloomberg notes that this deal is similar to one
that was penned between the two companies
back in 2009, but was later abandoned in 2011.
There have been no formal announcements yet,
but if true, the deal could be mutually beneficial
by bringing added functionality to Google
searches while driving new user interaction for
Twitter.
Source: Bloomberg
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