There is so much hoo ha about Twitter killing Google and Twitter being the future search tool. Every single article that you read about Twitter is that they do things in real time, real time discussions and buzz, which is something that Google’s results do not really do and do not really cater for at the moment.
Google has responded with so many different methods, the most recent being feeding in Twitter results into the SERPs and having the option to bring in results that were updated in the last hour. But in my personal opinion twitter is a social site like any other site. There are some downsides to the service in my judgement, which are as follows.
Information
The information and the news is all very well and good being in real time, but what if someone wants to read up on older information, can they really do that? No, they simply cannot, because nothing is ever crawled so it is going to be a lot harder.
Products
Now this is my personal opinion is the main problem with Twitter and its something that Google are following. Google are now trying to bring in more real time results and results which are current that people have just posted or talked about. Every non tech person (the mass user) I know uses either EBay, Google or Amazon to buy something, with Google probably being the first choice. They do this because it is hassle free, its so easy to type into search and away you go. Two it’s relevant, Google have never let me down when I want to purchase something, they deliver the most trusted sites to me. Now what could these product searches do alternatively? Search on Twitter and get conversations? No thanks, or create an account and ask your 0 followers to help you out? Or I know, grow your network communicate with people you do not know and ask them, but why? Why would anyone do that? People have very busy lives and do not have near enough time to constantly update their tweets. What easier solution then to go to Google and type in what you are looking for, does it have to be genuine time. No, not at all, trusted products from trusted sites which have built that trust with hard work and clever advertising.
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