Google to Launch a Microblogging Search Engine
Microblogging leading by Twitter have gain tremendous momentum and it is the new news delivery mechanism for many people. With the amount of exchanged information, the only search available is Twitter’s own search engine and few third party search apps such Tweefind and Twingly . Strangely enough, Google does not index Microblogging sites.
Realized this problem, Google is eying with great interest this pool of information and it prepares to launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services
Much like Google Blog Search, Google’s microblogging search service will sort the results by relevancy and it also be integrated with Google’s web search engine: the keywords that are frequently used in recent posts will trigger a MicroBlogsearch universal search group.
In May, Marissa Mayer discussed the significance of Twitter for Google:
"What’s really happening in Twitter is that there are a lot of clues in it in terms of what’s happening that’s interesting overall. It’s similar to what we see in Google Trends, where people will often type what they’re interested in into the search box, and we can make some predictions off of that. So we are interested in being able to offer, for example, micro-blogging and micro-messaging in our search. Particularly in Blog Search and possibly in Web Search, but we don’t have any particular plans to announce."
[Source Google Blog]
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