Comments on: Google Still Can’t Deliver Real-Time Search; Offers Warmed Up Leftovers Instead

By: Sency

Sency — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:47:39 +0000

we just launched our real time search engine: http://sency.com/ offering a few twists such as a free, easy to use, feed for content sites…

By: Rob Wilcox

Rob Wilcox — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:04:22 +0000

Have to agree with Andrew. We get a lot of our news via both FB and Twitter and other RSS feeds, but if we want to know more and who’s talking about it, we turn to Google as our first stop following social media.

By: lastobelus

lastobelus — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:24:17 +0000

Just because you don’t understand ACNE PILLOWCASE does not mean google is borken.

ACNE PILLOWCASE literally saved my life, and I would not even want to bother saving my life if there was no google.

Google was great even before ACNE PILLOWCASE, but now with ACNE PILLOWCASE google has transcended into internet godhood.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:10:14 +0000

“Hot Trends is not Google telling us what content is rapidly making its way into the index. Nope, it’s just what keywords are popular among searchers”

Google’s not the place that unveils new trends, it’s a place for discovering the lowdown on ones that have already been discovered. Google didn’t do anything other than report that others were searching for acne pillowcase–heck, it didn’t even have the Reddit story indexed.

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:40:53 +0000

“Which kind of proves my point. Reddit discovered the trend, Google’s just trying to get a piece of the action.”

Not trying to be mean, but I never got that point from your blog post. Your point, to me, was “google trends is worthless”.

If you were in fact trying to make a point that google is trying to ride someones coat tails, you did so poorly.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:20:28 +0000

“Have you seen their website? Its a logo, a search field and a button.” LOL!

By: Robotnik1

Robotnik1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:10:46 +0000

Reddit created the trend using a search link (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=acne+pillowcase&aq=f&aqi=g10&oq= &cad=h) in it’s most popular submission of the morning.

Everyone who clicks the link is effectively googling ‘acne pillowcase’ making it a trend.

Of course ‘hot trends’ is based on search queries. Where else is google going to get real-time information? Have you seen their website? Its a logo, a search field and a button.

By: Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach

Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:47:26 +0000

Personally, I find it fascinating that Google hasn’t tackled realtime searching BEFORE twitter – getting the jump on trends is a business person’s dream.
.-= Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach ´s last blog ..Today’s Humor of the Day – Animator VS Animation 2 =-.

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:24:13 +0000

I think the last sentence of this post is especially poignant: “Google’s still the place we go to to dig deeper into the news we’ve just learned–not the place we go to discover it.” I think there’s merit to the argument that Google would better serve it’s loyal users (and 65% search market share, as reported by eMarketer today) by remaining true to producing relevant search results rather than “fresh” search results. Besides, it would seem to be a more sustainable model.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:09:54 +0000

Thanks! Which kind of proves my point. Reddit discovered the trend, Google’s just trying to get a piece of the action.

By: ooermissus

ooermissus — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:03:53 +0000

It’s trending because there’s a hugely popular reddit discussion on the issue at the moment.