This month, Google announced its new “Search, Plus Your World” strategy, in which Google search results would integrate information from a user’s social network — or, rather, from the company’s Google+ social network, as information from other social sites is not included in the new results format. Which prompted a terse, tweeted response from Alex Macgillivray, the general counsel of Twitter:

Bad day for the Internet … Having been there, I can imagine the dissension @Google to search being warped this way.

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