Rockmastermike
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Just venting...
Now that google has added twitter to their search database it is almost totally useless for any practical purpose unless you add "-twitter" to your search string to filter out all of the inane asshattery that floods twitter.
Who the hell thought this would be useful in any way?
LAME
JimL2
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Remember when Google bought Blogger, and Google Search was talking about segregating blog results so that the circular blogrolls and incessant trackbacks would stop pushing egocentric regurgitated content up to the top of every search?
Heh. Whoops!
Anyway, I'm betting this is one of those features that appears with no fanfare and disappears after a week with no explanation.
Edit: "Google to fix blog noise problem" - The Register, 9 May 2003
Andrew Hall
Dennison Place (The Circles)
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Rockmastermike wrote >>
Just venting...
Now that google has added twitter to their search database it is almost totally useless for any practical purpose unless you add "-twitter" to your search string to filter out all of the inane asshattery that floods twitter.
Who the hell thought this would be useful in any way?
LAME
A while ago I *added* Twitter search to Google via a Greasemonkey script. A substantial portion of my searches have real-time needs and this increased the utility of Google for me in those cases.
A.
Rockmastermike
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Andrew Hall wrote >>
Rockmastermike wrote >>
Just venting...
Now that google has added twitter to their search database it is almost totally useless for any practical purpose unless you add "-twitter" to your search string to filter out all of the inane asshattery that floods twitter.
Who the hell thought this would be useful in any way?
LAMEA while ago I *added* Twitter search to Google via a Greasemonkey script. A substantial portion of my searches have real-time needs and this increased the utility of Google for me in those cases.
A.
depends what you're googling I guess. I find myself googling things where 'real time' comments are simply noise more often then the other way around, especially when the source of those comments is unknown (twitter username = unknown source)
Today I was googling someone who had been dead for several decades and was irritated that there were a bunch of twitter comments coming in above actual historical information, even over google books text search results. VERY irritating in this case.
FilmFlam20
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Try using http://www.clusty.com
It's the only search engine that searches in clusters.
Walker
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Rockmastermike wrote >>
Now that google has added twitter to their search database it is almost totally useless for any practical purpose unless you add "-twitter" to your search string to filter out all of the inane asshattery that floods twitter.
Is this being slowly rolled out or something? I'm not getting twitter results. Or maybe I'm just not making the right (ie: wrong) searches?
Rockmastermike
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Walker wrote >>
Rockmastermike wrote >>
Now that google has added twitter to their search database it is almost totally useless for any practical purpose unless you add "-twitter" to your search string to filter out all of the inane asshattery that floods twitter.Is this being slowly rolled out or something? I'm not getting twitter results. Or maybe I'm just not making the right (ie: wrong) searches?
After talking to several people who are not seeing twitter crap in their search results I suspect that either I just got lucky and was searching something that people were for some reason all-a-twitter about, or that perhaps it was a temporary issue.
I just repeated one of my searches from earlier and it is only showing one twitter result now. I can live with that signal/noise ratio.
Walker
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Ah, good. I was beginning to worry that if I fed some sort of a question into google that I was going to get hit with 50,000 twitter results where every jackass is asking the same question via twitter instead of searching via google in the first place. :P
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