{"id":1759,"date":"2012-01-11T05:20:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T05:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2012-01-11T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:18:13","slug":"twitter-lashes-out-at-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/1759\/twitter-lashes-out-at-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter lashes out at Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter<\/a> lashed out at changes Google Inc<\/a> unveiled for its search engineon Tuesday, describing the changes as “bad” for consumers and for Web publishers.<\/p>\n

Twitter, a microblogging service which allows its users to broadcast short, 140-character messages to groups of “followers,” said Google’s changes would make it tougher for people to find the breaking news often shared by users of its service.<\/p>\n

“As we’ve seen time and time again, news breaks first on Twitter; as a result, Twitter accounts and Tweets are often the most relevant (search) results,” the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“We’re concerned that as a result of Google’s changes, finding this information will be much harder for everyone. We think that’s bad for people, publishers, news organizations and Twitter users,” the statement continued.<\/p>\n

Twitter’s criticism, which came hours after Google announced new features aimed at making search results more personalized, underscored the growing competition between the Web companies. And it comes at a time when Google is facing antitrust scrutiny for favoring its own services within its search results.<\/p>\n

A Twitter spokesperson declined to answer a question about whether the company might reach out to antitrust regulators about Google’s changes.<\/p>\n

Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

A 2009 agreement, allowing Google to offer a real-time feed of Twitter messages within its search results, expired in July.<\/p>\n

Google launched a social network, dubbed Google+, in June that offers many of the capabilities available in Twitter and in Facebook.<\/p>\n

With Tuesday’s changes to Google’s search engine, photos and posts from Google+ will increasingly appear within the search results.<\/p>\n

The changes effectively create customized search results for people who are logged in to Google. A person who searches for the term “Hawaii,” for example, might find private photos that their friends have shared on Google+ as well as public information about the islands.<\/p>\n

Twitter General Counsel Alex Macgillivray, a former Google attorney, said in a Tweet on Tuesday that Google’s changes “warped” Web search and represented a “bad day for the Internet.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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