I feel the complete opposite - I used to Google for specific tweets I remembered seeing and to help find tweets relating to current events. Google was much better about showing me the stuff I wanted to see than the actual Twitter site!

I'm really excited to have this back.

.. which is exactly why an opt-out would be a good solution. People can see what they want, and rbing in tweets when/if appropriate.

Worst case, I bet someone will make a chrome plugin to purge twitter results from search.

The signal (actual news) to noise (opinions, comments, satire) is very high so adding Twitter to news is probably not a good idea.

I think you mean "very low"

Yup. I meant "extremely low"

Wonder what is more valuable: showing tweets along the search results or being able to use them to rank other search results?

Especially for stuff that is happening right now, tweets probably contain pretty good information on what are the most relevant sources of information. And since the text part is show short, it is easier to match what this tweet is related to.

Its going to be heavily censored anyway, Twitter has an excessive amount of trolls, harassment and negative tweets in regards to any major social news event. There is no way Google will let that hit the search results.

>I wouldn't mind if somehow it was integrated into Google News; that could be cool.

I've wanted to build a site that mixes news feeds with tweets about said news. Some news sites have weak twitter streams to the side but it would be cool to have something more immersive.

You might find reddit live interesting, it does a pretty good job of this imo. For example, https://www.reddit.com/live/u9z0oa5c4jud/ and http://www.reddit.com/live/u7qtz12ybb74

Together with being crowd sourced it's a really fresh take on breaking news.

Does -site:twitter.com count as an "opt-out"?