It's been a long time waiting but here it is at last: Google has a new dynamic results category: tweets. It now includes in its search results a window where tweets tagged with your search keywords scroll in real time.
So Google did it again! True to their (public) mission statement, they now also organize real time content. This was the missing piece in their mission of organizing information. An increasing number of internet users were getting used to go to Twitter to get the latest news on a given subject. Now Google takes again the upper hand by aggregating all media forms in their search results.
They haven't included it yet in their search category menu though and it is still unclear how these results are ranked in the display order on the result page. Sponsored results are on top as usual but I have seen the tweets displayed at different levels in the results.
To be thorough, Yahoo! also includes Twitter results but they are not in real time: tweets seem to be batched.
and Bing doesn't index tweets yet.
Now the next logical question is: who is going to archive tweets? After all Twitter is a snapshot of the world collective thinking. Aren't snapshots worth collecting to remember what was on our minds at a given point in time?
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