Google Tweets

[LordFerret]

This past Friday, Google silently slipped this into your search results...

Google Now Offers Twitter Integration in its Search Results

Now I'm looking for a way to defeat it / turn it off.

[RainDreamer]

I think ad block is blocking it, because I see no such thing...

[dryer_lint]

Now I'm looking for a way to defeat it / turn it off.

Wait, why?

I just tried searching "Barack Obama" (their example in the article) and the Twitter integration isn't very intrusive at all. It's literally two short strips of text, a bit larger than the normal "blurb" underneath search results. I'm pleasantly surprised, I was expecting a big blue box with the Twitter icon.

[windows_x_seven]

W-wha?

Google integrating Twitter in its results?

How can this be?

Where did the "Force-Google-Plus-Down-Our-Users'-Throat", or "Google-Plus-Masterrace" policy go?

[Flymetothemun]

This type of stupid stuff is why I use duckduckgo.com. Better interface and I can search almost any major website from it's search bar.

Edited August 23, 2015 by Flymetothemun

[maltesh]

It was announced that it would be coming to the Desktop on the Google Blog back in May. Most of the tech blogs picked it up back then. Not to mention, it's a return of a feature they had years ago, but the reason it went away is not because Google didn't want it, but because Twitter didn't, and withdrew Google's access to the fire hose.