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Twitter Plans to Squash Google’s Spider?
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Moderator Went Hot: May 10, 2009 - 04:20 am
Posted By: NickWilsdon 310 Days ago
Source: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com
Category: Social Media
Frank Reed writes about Twitter’s new search facilities. They plan to index sites linked within the system. Could this provide a real time search engine that will rival Google?
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from chrisking 309 Days ago #
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Now that Facebook has now opened their "stream" to developers I think the first search engine to incorporate multiple data point points from twitter and facebook on links shared into the mix will provide one of the most valuable search experiences out there.

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from NevadaSEO 306 Days ago #
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Google is different. Although Twitter is popular this days but it will end it’s time later or sooner... Google might incorporate but not possible thought.

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from yoshimi 306 Days ago #
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There are so many ifs and how to answer before this even starts to become a possibility, I like the idea of a users reputation contributing to how much weight to give the site, but that just means that the people who have the most time to dedicate to twittering (which judging by the current twitter trend seems to be marketers) will have the most "Trustworthy" profiles, and Joe Bloggs, who tweets once a month will not count, unfortunatlely the world is made of far more Joe Bloggs’ then marketers, so will this really be representative of anything other than the twitter demographic? If they can’t overcome that, twitter will be little use as a search engine.

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from mwiegand77 305 Days ago #
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I agree. Twitter is a long way off interms of actually realizing their indexing plans - especially given that their servers still sag under the weight of their normal user volumes. Just imagine if they were crawling huge amounts of data when the Fail Whale crops up and grinds everything to a halt. That could get ugly.

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