Thursday, January 12, 2012

Twitter Really, Really Hates Google?s New Google+ Integration

alexmacThis morning, Google began rolling out a major change to its core search engine that intertwines results from Google+ (and Picasa) with the 'normal' algorithmically-generated results we've come to expect. There have been plenty of critiques of the news, including John Battelle's discussion on how this isn't actually integrating 'Your World', as Google calls it, but rather just its own social network. And now there's another critic that's coming out swinging: Twitter. Earlier today the company's General Counsel Alex Macgillivray, who was a top attorney at Google prior to making the jump to Twitter, called it "A bad day for the Internet", and stated that some of his former colleagues were likely upset by the decision to "warp" Google's results. And now Twitter itself has followed up with a statement denouncing the feature ? and rather relying on the wishy-washy PR speak big companies are fond of, it's very direct. Here's the full statement:

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/QhXeOW-gAek/

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