Twitter, Google Exchange Angry Words Over Google's New Personalised Search (Which Favors Google+)

Twitter has come out publicly against Google’s recent changes to its search algorithm, which favors Google+ and Picasa results mixed in to regular search results.

TechCrunch has the details on the changes to Google’s search algorithm, which they’re calling “Your World”, but the basic idea is that results are now going to be peppered with data from Google+ and Picasa (which is Google-owned). Search results are going to be even more personalized to each user based on his or her Google+ posts, connections and activity.

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