(2012-01-11) Google Search Plus World

Google launched a "SearchPlusYourWorld" model that combines Social Search and Real Time Search into the rest of your Search Engine results. Google Plus is heavily promoted, while Twitter results are not. Platform War!

Albert Wenger has a good summary/linkfest of the discussion.

• Kid Mercury commented that he sees the behavior as inevitable. At the end of the day google is primarily an SaaS company, and all such companies will go down the path of becoming monopolies with bad governance.

Not that Twitter's hands [are](https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/C Akqb Xdi K H2) clean as a Platform host, considering the whole client-acquisition and API/firehose games.

Jan17: some see this as conceding the defeat of the Page Rank system at the hands of the SEO game-players. That seems a bit much...