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Twitter throws the first stone at Search plus Your World

As news about Search plus Your World spread like wildfire through the internet, the web’s biggest microblogger was quick to throw the first stone at Google . It seems Twitter is less than enthused about the proliferation of social search results in the latest Google update – users can now see a mixture of social and global results for search queries, including stories gleaned from Mountain View’s own social network, Google+. Former Google employee and Twitter general counsel Alex Macgillivray tweeted that it was a “bad day for the internet”, and Twitter followed suit, releasing a formal statement : “Often, [users] want to know more about world events and breaking news. Twitter has emerged as a vital source of this real-time information, with more than 100 million users sending 250 million Tweets every day on virtually every topic. As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter; as a result, Twitter accounts and Tweets are often the most relevant results. “We’re concerned that as a result of Google’s changes, finding this information will be much harder for everyone. We think that’s bad for people, publishers, news organisation and Twitter users.” As part of Google Realtime Search, Twitter signed an agreement in 2009 with the search titan to carry results gleaned from its microblogging site. When the deal expired this past July, Twitter opted not to renew it, and shortly after, Google announced it had disabled Realtime to explore other options. Google responded to Twitter’s statement , saying: “We’re 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 rel=nofollow instructions.” Digg | delicious | Reddit | Google | Twitter | Sphinn | StumbleUpon | YahooBuzz | Facebook | Mixx | Contact bigmouthmedia

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Twitter throws the first stone at Search plus Your World

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Google and MTV Test Video Distribution Model

Viacom’s MTV Networks, and search engine, Google, are collaborating to test a consumer, web publisher, and advertiser video distribution model. Under the terms of the agreement, Google will distribute ad-supported content from MTV Networks to targeted website publishers.

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Google and MTV Test Video Distribution Model