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Re:What Scares Google by quantumhobbit on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @09:19PM (#786303)
As with wikipedia, google can just index twitter. If twitter becomes a true threat(which I personally doubt) google can always tweak PageRank to work with fast evolving twitter news. Instead of searching twitter many people will still search google and click on twitter results if they happen to be relevant.
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Re:What Scares Google by pt on Tuesday August 25, 2009 @10:03PM (#786362)
For that, Google needs the Twitter fire hose. I am not sure if Twitter would be willing to offer that to Google at this time.
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Re:What Scares Google by andreyf on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @01:24AM (#786620)
Or they can just look at the topology of the connections and the RSS feeds of the tiny fraction of people representative of the entire thing. Not a big deal, IMO.
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