Christian Little

There is so much hoo ha about Twitter killing Google and Twitter being the future search tool. Each and every article you come across with Twitter is that they do things in real time and that Google do not meet the same demands.

Google has responded with so many different methods, the most recent being feeding in Twitter results into the SERPs and having the selection 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

Information and news is all very well and good being in real time, but what if someone wants to find old archived information or read older stories, can they 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 basically trying to bring in a lot more real time results which people have posted and talked about. Every non tech person (the mass user) I acknowledge uses either EBay, Google or Amazon to purchase something, with Google in all likelihood being the first option. They do this because one, it’s easy just type into the search and away you go. Two it’s relevant, Google have never let me down when I want to buy something, they deliver the most trusted sites to me. Now what could these product searches do instead? Search around Twitter and get conversations? No thanks, or create an account and ask your 0 followers to assist you out? Or I know, expand your network and communicate with people you have hardly met, but why? Why would anyone want to do that? People have busy lives and they do not have 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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