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We were promised a war between social media giants by every expert in the blogosphere and today we saw a bit of a battle begin.
Twitter is speaking out against changes to their competitor and reigning search engine Google. This morning, Google announced they will update their search engine to include Google+ users’ pages along with regular Google search results. For those of us who aren’t part of the 62 million reported Google+ users, nothing will change but those active on Google’s social network will notice a difference to their searches. Twitter thinks this could muddle searches by pushing out relevant results (i.e. Twitter posts).
“As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter,” the company said. “We’re concerned that as a result of Google’s changes, finding this information will be much harder for everyone.”
But does that mean Google including relevant (and clearly noted) information coming out of their own social network is unfair? Will Google+ information clutter up search results? Or is Twitter out of line?
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