Earlier today at the Web 2.0 Summit news broke that Microsoft (Bing)
and Google had struck deals to incorporate Twitter's tweets into their
search results. This is great because it allows for an organic search
engine not gamed by SEO with real-time results to additionally be
tapped into by Bing and Google users.

Additionally, there is in principle a person attached to each tweet,
and therefore each piece of information, so you can contact them and
tap into their social network for more "organic" information.

I suspect that this will also allow us to better tap the Deep Web,
those things on the Web that search engines can't easily find, but
that humans might find, link to, and talk about online.

Finally, I have been doing a stripped down version for this for a
while using a FireFox plugin called GreaseMonkey. This plugin gives
Google search results as normal, but also gives the last five tweets
that fit the search in a box at the top of the search results. Its
been very useful for tapping into real-time versus link-driven results
for keywords or questions I've been interested in.

Side note: In my continuing experimentation with Posterous, I entirely
wrote this on my BlackBerry while waiting for someone stuck in traffic
to meet up with me. I'm making the most of my alone time (otherwise it
would just be me and my bourbon).