Google & Microsoft In Real Time Search Talks With Twitter Comments

Author Gordon Kelly
Published 8th Oct 2009
Google & Microsoft In Real Time Search Talks With Twitter

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comment Helmore said on 8th October 2009

Hasn't Google indirectly shown their own concept and use of real time search in Google Wave, just look through the video over here: http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html#video It's at around 41:40 minutes.

comment Gordon said on 8th October 2009

@Helmore - of a sort yes, but it's a wider roll-out beyond Wave that I think it believes Twitter's technology can help with. After all, if it added no benefit I doubt the two would be in talks.

comment Simon said on 8th October 2009

Why would Twitter want to give away or sell its crown jewels?

comment Gordon said on 8th October 2009

@Simon - because it wouldn't be a sale, it would be a licensing deal and an extremely good revenue earner for a company with no viable business model as yet ;)

comment Cub said on 9th October 2009

It wasn't that long ago that there were rumours of Microsoft or Apple or some other big computing power looking into buying Twitter. It was dismissed by the web at the time because Twitter didn't actually have any profitability... Not the case now, then?

comment WyWyWyWy said on 9th October 2009

So why don't they develop their own?
It's not like they don't have the resources.

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