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Comment by hornbaker | Hacker News Reader

My bet is GOOG. They need a streaming newsfeed product in which to insert ads.

This could be pretty cool. There are times when I search for something that happened recently (say, 20 minutes ago in a live sports game, or if I see 6 police cars blocking off the street out my window) and google has no record of it, or sometimes the news tab stories are now wrong/obsolete. In these cases I'd love to see twitter results, particularly from "trusted" sources like reporters or news orgs or even just from popular sources.

(Presumably Google could work out this deal now without buying twitter. But it could be a benefit, similar to how the videos tab is mostly YouTube).

Google already pays Twitter for access to the firehose and does display recent tweets that are relevant at the top of the search results page.

What is this inane trend here on HN of referring to companies with the names they are registered to stock exhange?

It shows that we are #savvy.

For many of us its sheer laziness and its been this way for a long time. GOOG is faster to type than Google. (This is especially true for MSFT.)

I remember MSFT being a common reference on Slashdot way back when.

I like that it is more accurate than saying Google ( it's Alphabet now after all), while still using a reference we are familiar with.

Shorthand.

Twitter's Executive Chairman, Omid Kordestani, was SVP of Sales at Google. He may be their internal sponsor as well.

Also, better youtube commenting system?

> better youtube

Two words that probably won't be said about any feature Google creates. They seemed determined to kill the platform.

* GOOGL

They are called Alphabet Inc. now.

Yikes. If Twitter starts to insert ads in newsfeeds, a lot of people are likely to quit right away.

Uh, they already do

???

Been using Twitter since 2008 and I never saw any.

What else do you want Google to take over?

Maybe ATT? Verizon? Comcast? TWC? All other ISPs? How about Walmart? And maybe Google could even buy local governments to make things more streamlined.

And we all could pay with Google dollar, and have Larry Page as world dictator.

Google already has faaar too much power and should be broken apart, giving an entity organized like a dictatorship – which all non-coop companies are – even more power basically would mean Google would become more powerful than most small to middle governments.

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