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Add real-time Twitter search results to your Google searches

A new Greasemonkey script adds seamless Twitter results to the top of your Google search results.

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Computing | by Barb Dybwad | Mon Mar 2, 2009 4:01PM | 4 comments

There's been a lot of buzz in the Techo Chamber lately about how search giant Google may be jealous of Twitter's cornering of the emerging market for real-time search — perhaps even jealous enough for an acquisition of the microblogging startup from Evan Williams and co. who have already once sold a startup to Google with Blogger back in 2003. While the pundits hash it out, meanwhile Movable Type consultant Mark Carey put together a simple practical solution to combine the best of both worlds with a Twitter search Firefox add-on for Google.

If you use the Firefox browser but aren't familiar with Greasemonkey yet, run don't walk over to the Mozilla Add-Ons repository and install this wonderful tool that lets third-party developers customize the way particular web pages display using small bits of JavaScript. Greasemonkey is what makes Carey's add-on possible, so after downloading Greasemonkey head on over to Userscripts.org to install the "Twitter Search Results on Google" script, which simply and seamlessly adds the 5 most recent tweets for your search query at the top.

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Lainie Petersen external link (8:16 PM on Mon Mar 2, 2009)

How convenient! One-stop searching for both sites and for Tweeps who might be able to provide more information. Great idea!

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Anonymous (10:28 AM on Tue Mar 3, 2009)

There are also similar plug ins for IE7 like, http://www.ie7pro.com/ which supports user scripts.

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Mark external link (4:18 PM on Sun Mar 8, 2009)

You might like the up-to-the-minute real-time news page automatically generated from popular tweets, too - http://24tweets.com

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john mike (7:48 AM on Wed Sep 9, 2009)

Larry Page and Eric Schmidt from Google did a double header interview from the Google Zeitgeist conference just outside of London today. pool lights But the real question on our lips was what is Google going to do about the astounding buzz around realtime search and Twitter?
During a press conference I asked the question of of of Google's executives, pool steps and the answer came back that "the kind of innovation like what Twitter is doing and what we're doing is increasing search speed, relevance , freshness and comprehensiveness. pool deck Other companies will come up with solutions of course."

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