San Francisco (dpa) – Microblogging site Twitter on Wednesday criticized Google's newly announced plans to include Google+ content into search results, saying the decision to omit Twitter feeds would compromise the search experience. “Twitter has emerged as a vital source of … real-time information, with more than 100 million users sending 250 million Tweets every day on virtually every topic,” the company said in a statement. “We're concerned that as a result of Google's changes, finding this information will be much harder for everyone. We think it's bad for people, publishers, news organizations, and Twitter users.” Twitter's complaint came just days after Google said it would integrate content from its social network Google+ into its search results so that users could see relevant information from their friends and contacts. Google called the new system, Search Plus Your World. However, because Google does not have agreements with Twitter or Facebook, information from those social networks will not be included in the Search Plus Your World results unless they are made available on publicly searchable websites. Google responded to Twitter's complaints by noting that the microblogging site had declined to renew its agreement, which expired in July 2011, to let Google mine its content. “We are a bit surprised by Twitter's comments about Search Plus Your World, because they chose not to renew their agreement with us last summer, and since then we have observed their … instructions.” BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/wmQyj Tags: Google, Internet, twitter Section: Tech
