Is Google doing anything different for Twitter results?

We have a question from Matt in California. This is not me Matt, this is some other Matt in California who asks “Is Google doing anything different when it comes to serving up Twitter results?”

And the answer is no, we are not doing anything different. We have our web search results and if lot of people link to a particular tweet or if particular message that someone did on twitter then we think that’s really relevant and we see the content of that page or that status message and we’ll just return it within our normal scoring. So we look at the content of the page which is probably pretty short 140 characters or less for the core of the message we look at the people that link to it or and what they said when they linked to it. But it’s not as if we do anything different for our scoring for twitter or we do anything strange or anything like that. We treat them just like normal web pages so we crawl the web and as a part of crawling the web we end up at lot of different tweets or twitters by different people on twitter and so they just get ranked normally. So there’s no special sauce or anything different going on within our search results for just showing twitter.

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