So what? That's not part of the standard search. Since when is Google not allowed to advertise its own services alongside standard search results? What's next, do you whine that Bing has links to MSN and Hotmail?

Twitter actually contaminates ordinary search results on its site with paid tweets, and you're mad Google puts some Google+ content off to one side? WTF?

Oh, it's definitely part of standard search now. Schmidt said Twitter content wasn't included because they didn't have "permission" to index it. That's false. They are purposefully excluding it -- a point of fact which I'm glad to see you acknowledge now.

No, it's not part of standard search. And since you seem to know everything that goes on between Twitter and Google, perhaps you could share with us the documents showing Google has the permission it needs to include Twitter results in this very not-standard-search feature?

Edit: By the way, are you a lawyer? If not, even given your apparent insider knowledge of Google and Twitter goings-on, how do you know your legal understanding is correct?

Sure, I'd be happy to. Here it is: http://twitter.com/robots.txt