• Telegraph, Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12 PM

Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently hinted that Twitter and Google could forge some kind of partnership, whereby Twitter feeds would be indexed by the search giant. Schmidt, speaking to reporters following the company's annual Zeitgeist conference, noted that Google wouldn't necessarily have to buy Twitter, either: "We do not have to buy everyone to work with them," he said. Google has been rumored as a potential acquirer of Twitter, which is considered the leader in real-time search.

Co-founder Larry Page added that Google needs to learn from Twitter. He said the search giant has so far "done a relatively poor job of creating things that work on a per second basis...People really want to do stuff in real-time and they [Twitter] have done a great job about it... We will do a good job of things now we have these examples."

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