Will Twitter Rival Google?
Filed under: Internet Marketing, Online Business, SEO, Search Engines, Social Media
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 a few downsides to the service in my opinion which are as follows.
Information
Information and news is all very well and good being in real time, but what if somebody wants to find old archived information or read older stories, can they do that? No they simply cannot, because it’s all in real time and sites are actually never crawled and indexed, it is going to be very hard.
Products
Now this in my opinion is the main killer for Twitter and it’s something that Google are doing wrong too. 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 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 purchase something, they deliver the most trusted sites to me. Now instead what could these product searches actually do? Search on Twitter and get conversations? No thanks, or create an account and ask your 0 followers to aid you? 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 real time. No, not at all, trusted products from trusted sites which have reinforced that trust with hard work and ingenious advertising.
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