As if Twitter forcing politicians to communicate with poor grammar and spelling wasn't bad enough, you may also be inundated by "tweets", interlaced with search results, while searching Google. Google announced it in their blog in October of last year, though this site wasn't around then for me to comment on it. The tweets are usually in a live feed that is somewhere in the top handful of results, and they are often intermixed with links to news articles about your query. It is most often trendy searches or hot topics that bring results back containing Twitter feeds.

I for one do not welcome this. I don't want to see random peoples' tweets on the topic I am searching for. If I did, I would search for it. Leave tweets to the statisticians, marketing analysts and Twitter's "POPULAR TOPICS" section; the information is not useful for most Google searchers.

My advice to Google: Only include tweets in the search results for search queries that end in "tweets". For example, instead of showing me useless tweets when I search for "iPad", show me them if I were to search for "iPad Tweets", because then I would certainly be looking for useless opinions and be prepared to view them.

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