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6 Reasons Why Twitter is the Future of Search - Google Beware
SEM News Source: http://www.winningtheweb.com
Published: Mar 12, 2009 - 02:00 pm
Story Found By: gyutae 1066 Days ago
Category: SEM
Despite all of the hype, Twitter is still in its infancy and it’ll be years, maybe even a decade, before it develops the technology to accurately display search results and put a dent in Google’s market share. But regardless of all that, the point I want to make in this article is that Twitter has what it takes to get there. In other words, Twitter represents the future of search. Still not convinced? Let me explain…
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from bwelford 1066 Days ago #
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As I commented on the post: I very much agree with the thrust of this article. However I don’t see them as direct competitors. They are each dealing with very different online Webs. Twitter will clearly not try to out-google Google. Equally Google should not try to out-twitter Twitter. Google’s most successful mission in business terms would be to focus, focus, focus on its Universal Web Search and forget trying to catalogue all knowledge in the universe. The latter is just a macho appetite for size at whatever cost.

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from herndo21 1066 Days ago #
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Could not disagree more, and here are 6 reasons (and a lot of discussion in comments) why it’s not:http://sphinn.com/story/104244

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from rob82 1066 Days ago #
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You lost me at "Google returns pretty good search results most of the time, but they’re impersonal and sometimes irrelevant to what you really want"I seriously doubt, Twitter will come to the market place with a serious search product that would come close to Google.

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from toddmintz 1066 Days ago #
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What Barry said.  Twitter is a complimentary search experience to Google but it is no way the future and will never replace it.

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from g1smd 1066 Days ago #
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***  I seriously doubt, Twitter will come to the market place with a serious search product that would come close to Google. ***It’s not that Twitter will make a better search product, but simply that asking something on Twitter and getting live answers back from the cloud can (for some types of information) give a better experience than wading through SERPs at Google or other SEs.

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from herndo21 1065 Days ago #
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From the blog comments:Do me a favor: Go to search.twitter.com and search for ‘dallas hotel’ I don’t know about you, but I’m not seeing anything that resembles a recommendation, save for a clear shill site.Do the same for ‘dallas restaurant’. ‘Movie review’. ‘How I Met Your Mother.’ All things that we’ve heard from pundits and twitter fanatics are the kinds of searches that will clearly drive traffic away from Google. And the noise is only going to get more intense as more people - and spammers - join Twitter.I would say that in terms of search, Twitter could be a Yahoo Answers or TripAdvisor (neither of which is a great threat to Google or its search traffic), which follow the human-generated recommendation description that you favor - but even that’s a stretch because at 140 characaters, even the best of search algorithms aren’t going to be able to do much to determine what a post is about and how it relates to your query. It’s a broadcast instant message platform, not a place where people go to strictly dole out useful and helpful information in order to answer specific questions.It could very easily change our lives, but not in any likelyhood our search - and certainly not in its current form. A supplement for universal search like images, video and blogs at absolute most.

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