Google is preparing to launch a search service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services such as Twitter.  Micro-blogging services are great for live blogging and posting real-time information about an event.
Twitter’s search engine has two major drawbacks: it’s limited to Twitter and it sorts the results by date.  Yes, there are other search [...]

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Google is taking search to the next level.  It’s unclear whether the G-folks are trying to compete with Twitter, or possibly the upcoming Wolfram Alpha engine, which sounds intriguing.
Today, they’ve announced a search engine on steroids called “Google Squared”, which Marissa Mayer discussed today at the company’s second annual Searchology event.
Google Squared extracts data from [...]

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On Friday night, Charlie Rose interviewed Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The interview covers everything from Google’s origins and the dawn of its advertising business to how search will reinvent humanity in the coming years.
When asked if Google is interested in acquiring Twitter, Schmdit replied: “We’re unlikely to buy anything in the short term partly because [...]

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