Comments on: Twitter Plans to Squash Google’s Spider?

By: Marshall Clark

Marshall Clark — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:21:53 +0000

Interesting first step. Match this with third-party spidering limitations on Twitter reputation criteria and they'd have a competitive advantage over Google. Not a Google-killer yet by any means, but the start of a platform to build one from. Rock on Santosh!

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By: Printing Seattle

Printing Seattle — Thu, 14 May 2009 11:07:44 +0000

There was some real question about what Twitter was planning with their lack of a business model at first, but it’s starting to become clear. If twitter plays their cards right this could be a serious game changer.

By: Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach

Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:17:41 +0000

Definitely a smart move on Twitter’s part. The trending tool is somethng that can help people predict what will be popular (monetarily wise as well) in the near future – that’s something quite valuable indeed.

By: Ranking Challenge

Ranking Challenge — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:52:04 +0000

there are many search engine claiming they are better than google but its all about traffics which google have more than other

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[...] Twitter Plans to Squash Google’s Spider? "When you do a search on a “trending” topic (a topic that is so big it gets its own link in the Twitter.com sidebar), Twitter will take into account the reputation of the person who wrote each tweet and rank search results in part based on that." [...]

By: IrishWonder

IrishWonder — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:40:12 +0000

I first read the title of this post and thought it was going to be about some crazy step akin to what Digg did with its toolbar – but luckily this is actually a really smart move on Twitter’s part. I’d say way to go – if they can handle it and have the resources to spider the web, let them. Google has been a monopoly for way too long so some competition will not hurt for sure. As for the reputation – at the current state this should be a really difficult and interesting process, kudos to the Twitter folks if they actually manage to make something good out of it.

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By: Dustin Pitcher

Dustin Pitcher — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:42:14 +0000

Good article, twitter will definitely have a powerful search tool when all is said and done. The ranking system is a must as there are more and more users, thus more and more BS in the stream. Will twitter "squash google's spider"? No, but for certain querys it will be a better tool and certainly put a dent in google's market share. By the title I thought twitter was going to stop allowing google to crawl them, I was like "holy sh*t"!! Dustin Pitcher's last blog post..Dane Forst and Dustin Pitcher on KGET

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By: Steve Mason

Steve Mason — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:05:07 +0000

Twittler definitely needs to beef up their infrastructure to be able to handle this. All that really takes is money! Once they come up with a good business model, there is no reason they can't a force to go up against Google. Steve Mason's last blog post..Getting Started with Twitter

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[...] An unsubstantiated rumor of Twitter’s power: Jayaram told of being in the Twitter offices in San Francisco on March 30, when the Twitter engineers noticed that the word “earthquake” had suddenly started trending up. They didn’t know where the earthquake was. Several seconds later, their building started to shake. The earthquake had been in Morgan Hill, 60 miles south of San Francisco, and the tweets about the shaker reached the office faster than the seismic waves themselves. (via) [...]

By: Chris Desouza

Chris Desouza — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:38:02 +0000

Twitters problem is not search, but scaling. It better use some of the millions in the bank to bury the ‘Fail whale’ once and for all. Twitter reminds me of my hosting provider. Not an ideal comparison test.

By: Brian Ratzker

Brian Ratzker — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:27:53 +0000

I can’t wait to see real-time search be even better than Twitter’s current search. In Google, Twitter will become the news of now just as Wikipedia is the user generated reference.

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Twitter layouts — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:11:10 +0000

You can already see from google results that twitter is becoming increasingly popular with google’s results

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:33:21 +0000

This absolutely makes Twitter more of an important factor when developing an online media social strategy. Perhaps we don’t know exactly what Twitter will do with all the links it crawls, visits and stores- but anytime and anywhere we know a link is being crawled means something as far as SEO is considered.

By: Bob Williams

Bob Williams — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:27:38 +0000

I share Chris' thought on this. The uniqueness of the search results would be the age of the links and tweets. So while it discounts results not contained in tweets, it should provide a fair amount of recent data based on the facts that tweets are typically up-to-the minutes news. Hope this doesn't bring the blue whale to the surface more than ever..... Bob Williams's last blog post..Six Flags. More customer focused flags = more fun

By: Jamesq

Jamesq — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:58:43 +0000

It will be interesting to see if the use of Tiny URLs will reduce if this happens and how long before Twitter Optimisation Specialists start promoting services. Maybe they are out there already?? Jamesq's last blog post..GUERNSEY BUSINESSES PREPARE FOR FLU THREAT

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:29:15 +0000

The idea of an engine with freshness as it’s core is as impressive as the original impetus behind Google. It/ll be interesting to watch this unfold.

By: Jules

Jules — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:13:18 +0000

For companies trying to market on the Internet, I think that this raises the importance of developing an online social media strategy.

Ignoring Twitter as a powerful search engine would now seem to be a recipe for disaster. I feel that the argument for participation in social media has now become much more compelling whilst the battle for online ‘reputation’ is likely to step up more.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:49:41 +0000

Being that I live just a few miles from Morgan Hill, and Tweeted right when I felt that earthquake, I believe it. Rob's last blog post..Poll - Justify Content or Left Align Content