Can Google improve microblogging security?

Social media security has been a major focus of the Cisco Security blog in the past several months. We believe so strongly in sharing the message of using social media in a secure way that it was also a prominent focus in the 2009 Cisco Annual Security Report. In the 2009 report, we discussed how criminals, like predators in the wild, migrate to where their victims can be found. Recently, that has been on social networking sites and services.
Now, Google has moved to include microblogging and other recent search index updates in their Real Time Search section (“Latest results for…”) of a standard search results page. Just as the existence of community lends trustworthiness to content found on social networks, the association with Google’s search results also lends validity to content.