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Avatar Posted By: bwelford 165 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.cre8asite.net)
Category: Google SEO
Twitter limits its human writers to 140 characters and is a success. Google SERP snippets are 155 characters and are written by computers. The winner is?
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from nickycakes 165 days ago #
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the two are completely unrelated...what's the point exactly?

from bwelford 165 days ago #
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I'm suggesting that Twitter works and the Google snippet process may not, although both are based on minimal sets of characters.  Do you find that both work well for you?

from nickycakes 165 days ago #
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They're both completely unrelated dude.  Twitter is a feed of what people are currently doing and google's search engine snippet is either taken from the meta description of the page or an excerpt from the page itself.

I really don't follow how comparing these two things makes any sense.

I feel like comparing twitter to the messages in fortune cookies would be just as (in)effective at putting a point across.

Just saying.

from bwelford 165 days ago #
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That's fine. To each his own.  It clearly doesn't work for you.  Peace.

from streko 164 days ago #
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@Bwelford - im going to have to agree with Nicky Cakes.

This really makes no sense - you mention twitter 2 times in the post - at the start. then the rest of the post is just talking about snippets.

it should be more along the lines of "Compairing user text input length of Googel Snippets & Twitter"

from bwelford 164 days ago #
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Well apparently TNash has the same concern as both streko and Nicky Cakes since he Desphunn this.  I only wish the Desphunn comments appeared here too.  They would if this was a true forum. :(

However I wasn't comparing the two, I was contrasting them.  I agree the only similarity is their character length.  Twitter seems to be on everyone's radar screen.  Despite many people expressing initial reservations, more and more people are jumping on to the bandwagon.  I guess it's a success.

My interest in this topic really started by thinking more about Google's snippet process.  It doesn't get too much attention.  The Google computers beaver away producing snippets for each SERP entry.  They're about tweat length. .. and surprisingly they quite often ignore or mutilate the human website owner's description.  If you check out what happens you may become as surprised as I am.  You can check out a discussion on this at Cre8asite Forums (full disclosure - I started that).

from streko 164 days ago #
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Your title would lead to believe you are compairing them. 

I am just finding it humorous that a bunch of people sphunn this & none of their avatars are showing on your MyBlogLog...

Brings back to the age old questions "Do you read what you sphinn?"

from tnash 164 days ago #
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"Google Snippets Or Twitter"
That sounds like a comparison to me, contrasting still requires there to be something to compare with. Twitter use is just not the same as Google Snippets they do not do the same function or indeed have any similarities other then the length of text. it's like me comparing Apples and a glass of Coke or a Fridge and a Car.

from Syzlak 164 days ago #
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I'm wondering just what mental time warp this article came from? The idea that these two things could being remotely comparable is beyond belief. Frankly I feel dumber for having read HALF of this article.

from bwelford 164 days ago #
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I'm not sure this is the best place to discuss all this since comments are seen by so few.  However since you all took the trouble to comment, it is only fair that I try to reply.

We shouldn't get too hung up on a discussion about whether compare or contrast describes what I was talking about.  What got me on to all this is that Twitter is human content in a summarized form.  The process seems to work.

Google often seems to reject human content (Description meta tag content) feeling that its snippet process will better justify the inclusion of an item in a SERP.  I'm not too impressed by how it works.  What do you folk feel about Google snippets?  How would you score them?


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