Do know what keeps a 5000 lbs gorilla awake at night? 10 million users all talking together. I know it’s a bad analogy but funny enough it is true. I predict that twitter will be a Google killer for local search as that becomes more and more relevant as to why people use the Internet.
Google results use to be great because we didn’t understand the algorithm so they produced great results. Then we all got smart and used Google to find the answer to game their system. Now the results are kind of weird and not always relevant.
Let’s try an example…
What is the best sushi in surrey?
Funny how the first one understood the right location but is a German information site that spelled Canada with a K. That site is just a listing of sushi restaurants.
The next one is a dead link and then more listing of local sushi restaurants.
If I asked this on twitter I am sure I would get a lot of replies especially from people I trust on the Internet.
Did you know that Google Searches are down in North America? Ask twitter where they are searching for those answers now. I bet you they know!
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isabella mori
July 25, 2009 4:37 pm
i was just thinking about that yesterday, how i use google less and less to find certain types of information. google is so chock full of totally irrelevant stuff, you often really have to sit there and think hard to come up with words to exclude or otherwise trick it.
so far i find twitter searches really good for news and for “real” questions like the one you posted. i guess twitter became what AskJeeves and YahooAnswers always wanted to be.