Hail Google

I am absolutely convinced that Google will one day take over the world:

Web search giant Google may be planning to buy microblogging site Twitter, according to TechCrunch. The tech news Web site, citing unnamed "people close to the negotiations," says that if Twitter bites, it would get cash and/or publicly valued stock from Google. Just five months ago, the increasingly popular Twitter turned down a $500 million offer from Facebook that was reportedly chock full of that company's stock.

The treasure Google seeks is Twitter's large database of information, which expands daily in real-time as so-called Tweeters fill their personal feeds with snippets of current events and observations (140 characters max at a time). Twitter also has a very effective search engine for mining this database, which would give Google plenty more Web pages to sell to advertisers, TechCrunch notes.

Let me just say that, when the day comes, I will welcome the new Google Overlords with open arms.