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Web 2.0 Summit 09: Marissa Mayer (via OreillyMedia)

Google + Twitter tweet search integration announcement plus Google Social Search.

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An eminent technologist once explained to me that any specific ordering of a relatively brief sequence of words — I forget the exact number, but it was certainly no more than nine — is distinct enough that (unless it is some boilerplate phrase that gets repeated over and over in some type of document) it can be used as a unique fingerprint for the entire document. He demonstrated this for me with Google searches. (Try it yourself, using the “exact phrase” setting — search string in quote marks.) It’s a pretty nifty idea with all sorts of implications.
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 The Twitter Global Mind | Rocketboom

i say, Twitter delivers where Google or even Facebook cannot. Twitter is real-time human search. Think about it. What are you doing?

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Twitter has been a-tweet since 2006, but the first three months of 2009 have delivered the micro-blogging service unprecedented traffic, usership and media cachet. In the parlance of mad-haired Gladwell disciples, Twitter is reaching its tipping point. And it’s happening as I write. This week alone, Twitter has been casually derided by Google’s [GOOG] CEO, labeled a potential “search engine alternative” by Search Engine News, and compelled TechCrunch to call 2009 “the year of the activity stream.