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MG Siegler: Anti-Google posts are getting old and boring

After following MG Siegler on Techcrunch, Parislemon and Google+, I am of the opinion that he hates Google.

(no, really???)

Yes.

With a passion.

If you read his latest post about Twitter’s reaction to their Google+ search integration, you would think that he has performed some research into what the other search engines are doing. Or even, for that matter, that he would perform the search himself.

Apparently he has not.

While I couldn’t replicate exactly what the Twitter guy returned on his search, I can see that the image he posted on his Twitter feed had clearly been doctored to omit the results under the Google+ section. Was the Twitter feed number 3? Who knows!

I tried searching for @WWE on Google. The WWE twitter feed was the second result, and the google+ page did not even come up (on page one, anyway). After trying the same search on Bing, the twitter feed did not even rate a mention, but funnily enough the Google+ link did.

Search engines are funny things; the algorithm is so diverse that no two computers or users can return the same results, based on many factors including personal search patterns, embedded cookies, services currently logged-into, etc. and while this freaks many people out (they’re spying on me, too!) It creates the personalised Web experience we all know.

Trust Google or don’t, at the end of the day they created the Pagerank algorithm and don’t expect them to break their code.

parislemon:

Yesterday, Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s general counsel, wasted little time in speaking out against Google+ being fully baked into Google Search — even before Twitter officially did on the record. Today he’s elaborating a bit. Why doesn’t the ex-Google employee like Search+? This is why:

Source: parislemon