Comments on: Google Wants You to Hear the Twitter Chatter of Tiny Tweets

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:53:20 +0000

That’s very possible, but how they determine which activities are going to “count” will likely be held tightly to their chest, as many parts of their algorithm, until Matt Cutts decides to offer an official statement

By: Buy Alexa Traffic

Buy Alexa Traffic — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:19:10 +0000

I read recently that Google made some changes in their algorithm and that your site activity is now going to be taken into consideration for placement in SERPS and hence ranking. I do not know how much truth their is to it, but it wasn’t once, I read a couple of different articles about it.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:44:15 +0000

Been using Twitter for a while my impression is everybody sees their list growing but nobody reads anyones tweets! So not so sure about the usefulness of all this. No difference what Google does

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:08:08 +0000

That’s interesting that it still personalizes when I’m logged out, or using a different browser. Unfortunate too, as that does not necessarily improve relevance…

Off topic (sort of) here’s a great piece by Dave Naylor why real-time search is a #FAIL
http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/google-real-time-search.html

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:10:45 +0000

Hardly luck of the draw. Google is still personalizing your logged out search, as described in the link in my first post. You like Twitter results, so Google is bumping them up for you. I never look at Twitter–not that Google would know because I have Firefox set to delete cookies, session information, etc. upon shut-down.

So… Google knows you like Twitter, and puts those results at the top for you. When I search “yesstyle” and “getelastic”, there are no Twitter results.

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:50:57 +0000

No clue Jaan, but according to the video they want to do it for newsworthy type things and maybe weather/local search?

By: Jaan Kanellis

Jaan Kanellis — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:20:31 +0000

Linda so what is the deal with Google showing Twitter results for brand queries only and not standard searches?

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:38:14 +0000

Hi Anonymous, I’ve tested it both logged in and logged out. It shows up for searches like “yesstyle” and “getelastic” but not for “walmart” or “target” yet. Luck of the draw, I guess.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:44:28 +0000

Sorry I wasn’t clear in the first comment. The real-time results are universal. I was referring to your statement that “Google boldly places Tweets at the top of results for select searches.”

This never happens to me, and it’s clear from the screen shot that you were logged into some kind of Google service.

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:17:40 +0000

I think this is universal — check out this video on Real Time Search from Google
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRkYmx4A9Do
Not limited to Twitter…