Search & Real Time Madness, Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land (Dec 10)
Real time streams from Twitter, Facebook etc seem to be disturbing search. Google, Yahoo, and Bing are all on this bandwagon - inserting these tweets into search results whether we want them or not. Danny Sullivan discusses several aspects.
+ spam - of course this can be exploited by spammers
+ news vs real time - really, what's the difference?
+ is Google going to pay Twitter and others for those streams? If so, why not pay for news too?