21 May 2009
Working with them they are. Google and Twitter have met, while personnel at Google have openly expressed admiration about Twitter's search engine - which is like Google in real-time, indexing people's live tweets!
The UK Telegraph report suggests Google may be looking at a way to index Twitter feeds in order to not re-invent the wheel. It also suggests Google Co-Founder Larry Page wants to look at ways to make real-time searches available via the global market-leading search engine.
Google has already made changes to their search results output in recent months by introducing Google Universal Search. Universal search basically means when you search for something, the results will bring up the usual results, as well as related Video results, News results, Blog results, Image results, etc.
Judging by Google's motivation behind the universal search (making search more dynamic), an incorporation of Twitter seems 'sensical'.
Watch this space...