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Something big must be going on in between Google and Twitter.

1. Twitter started ranking on Google SERPS.

This means that Google recognized Twitters in nowadays web search results as well as it’s brand.

Therefore Twitter is becoming the next service to be flooded with bogus account filled with keywords. This usually happens when a service really goes mainstream and internet markeeters start exploiting it massively…

2. Google has opened his own account on Twitter.

They set up different accounts for each one of their top services.

This is the very first message posted:

google goes on twitter - semwired.com

For those who are not familiar with binary code, this means I’m feeling Lucky

I do not want to draw any conclusion from this, but looking back at previous Google acquisitions timeline, I would not be surprised if big G is getting ready to put his hands on Twitter.
In 2003 Google purchased Blogspot, realizing the web was not only made by websites. Three years later they bought Youtube, since the web was not only websites and blogs. I think they’ve just realized the internet is made also of asincronous short messages…

The World Wide Brain

March 2, 2009 Ramblings Comments

the world wide brain - The Internet could become conscious by mid-2030s

The Internet represents a major step in our evolution, and is a forerunner of things to come. Artificial intelligence researcher Francis Heylighen sees huge growth as this new world-wide communication system continues to gain power from billions of humans adding to its intelligence every day. “It will get smarter,” Heylighen says, “as it morphs into a global super-organism that could one day provide solutions to most of humanity’s problems.
http://www.memebox.com/futureblogger/show/158

As reported here also (whose owner gets the credit for the pic here displayed) one day the net actually gain consciusness.
I actually believe it is gonna be kind of hard, as long as we’re gonna interact through relatively simple machines like most pc’s still are.

It seems that most of our population is getting less bright by the minute, with the exception of a small group of researchers who have been charged with the task of making life easier for the rest of us.
Are we expected to be so stupid by the next generation that we will need machines to do the talking for us?