So When You Will Start “Twittering” Keywords Instead of “Googling” it?
From last couple of months or so there has been much buzz about twitter as being strong alternative for search engine Google. We all know how big Google is, undoubtedly there are no close competitive as far as Internet search usage is concern Here are some data to prove my point:
But look there is one strong reason why people looking on twitter as new search alternative.
Real Time searches
The question of most relevant information still remains but twitter search tool places the most recent tweets on search phase. It will help you get updated answers for your quarries.
Twitter gives better results on current affair quarries.
In case of incident like Mumbai 26/11 massacre, I would definitely prefer to get updated information, pictures, and reports through Twitter search and not through conventional Google search, you know better why I’m saying this because you have already tested twitter search tool for this sort of information on current affair.
If you ask me I don’t find these feature makes twitter outclass Google from search engine business. Google will always remain first choice for all your search quarries and I don’t see any threat to its core search business activities. Couple of week back there was news of Google buying twitter, Twitter founder biz clear the air immediately stating there is no such deal executed between giant G and twitter.
Twitter Searching Tool
I’m giving you top shot Twitter Searching Tools for your delight.
Twazzup : Twazzup is a privately funded startup based in San Francisco, which searches relevant tweet.
Tweefind : another cool tool for your keyword searches.
SocialMention : Search results are aggregated from numerous popular social media sources, including Google blog search, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Digg, YouTube etc. and remixed as a single stream of information. The data is fresh, which means you can track conversations as they are happening in real-time.
You ve visualized the power of twitter search a few months down the line when people will be twittering instead of googling…Amazing thought process and the day does not look far to me when this will happen. This would ideally work for companies and websites looking to monitor buzz related activity for their websites… Thanks for the link
Hi Shanker,
That tools seem to be very interesting. I see it can also be used to find people related to your topic at Twitter and follow them and expecting that they follow you back.
Luis
Sounds cool, but I don’t think it’s a big threat for google
I don’t think twitter can beat google.
In this case, Twitter have a lot of works to do, if they want to beat Google off, which is seems like the “1001 Tales from the Arabian Nights” here, Shanker!
Twitter is the all new Internet GIANT link dump. Pretty much every tweet that you will receive or send out now has a link in it
-Mike
I’ll start searching twitter over google when twitter implements some sort of filtering.
All I seem to get at the moment when I search twitter is spam.