Dirty Little Secrets: The Problem with Social Search
Issues are expected to arise after Google officially launched Search plus Your World on Tuesday.
Online matters such as antitrust concerns, security, privacy, the effect on Facebook and Google+, strengthening of bubble filter, G+'s capacity to steal traffic from news websites, and many others appeared on the list of probably outcomes.
No one has expected Twitter, former partner of Google now transformed into a social news and social media opponent, to quickly and firmly criticize Search Plus.
Twitter e-mailed its denunciations on Search Plus to several news sites Tuesday afternoon.
The message indicated that people has been dependent on Google for long years when it comes to researching on the internet. People who want updates on breaking news and world events rely on Google.
Twitter came into sight to provide users with real-time information. With over 100 million users tweeting more than 250 million messages every day on various topics is one quick way of supplying immediate updates. Because of its reachability, news gets exposed first on Twitter and it has been a site where people get relevant searches and updates.
Twitter believed that Google's Search Plus would create a negative impact in finding information using Google. The new feature might make it more difficult for online users, news organizations, publishers, and even Twitter users to find what they're looking for on the Internet.
Alex Macgillivray, general counsel of Twitter, personally think that the launching of Search Plus is an unlucky day for the online world. Macgillivray was a former general deputy counsel of Google.
Google answered back Twitter's message regarding Search plus Your World. In Google's statement shown they were shocked at Twitter's reaction upon the launching of Search plus.
Additionally, Twitter decided not to renew their contract with Google last summer. Since then, Google found out about their rel=nofollow (Google's indexing of outbound links from Twitter) orders.