GigaOM, January 24, 2012
By Mathew Ingram

If Google and Twitter were to describe their relationship in one word, it would probably be "complicated." For the past week or so, the two have been sniping at each other about Google's new social-search features, and how Twitter doesn't show up as high as it should in those results -- thanks to what it sees as favoritism of Google's own Google+ network. But this particular brouhaha is only the latest manifestation of a much deeper problem between the two. Both sides need each other more than they would probably like to admit.

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