Comments on: Fun Way to Stick It to Google

By: James

James — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:20:03 +0000

The google search that led me here was:

“twitter results on google front page useless”

I was trying to see if everyone thought google’s decision to feature twitter results on the main page was a stupid one. I guess not.

By: Splork

Splork — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:19:31 +0000

Wheeeeeee …..best Adsense day I’ve had in two weeks. Too funny. Love how consistent IM is.

By: Splork

Splork — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:02:12 +0000

Hey Sam. Yea Google and Bing both have that option to get real time results from Twitter. It’s what made Twitter profitable this past year. But if you don’t like Twitter results then those results won’t be of use to you anyway.

You’ve been able to search recent results in Google and Bing for a while now. I just find the real time, like right now, more interesting. Perhaps not useful some times, but interesting.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:39:52 +0000

Hey, if you click on the show options when searching in google a few options pop up and you can use a timeline from searching within two weeks to the real time using the latest option.

Also noticed that google had a twitter widget within the search results showing all the the latest updates in real time.

By: Splork

Splork — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:32:27 +0000

Twitter search may be useless for many topics. But what I would be willing to bet is that people are going to be using live search to find information. I would suggest that niche site pimps best figure out a way to monetize that shit. Google isn’t sitting around watching live search with disinterest nor is Bing. They are working with Twitter to monetize it. I would argue that we should too.

“Leading financial news magazine, Business Week, has reported that micro blogging giant Twitter will have a profitable year after the company signed two separate deals with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp which will allow Twitter tweets to be searched on their respective search engines.”

I find it interesting that niche builders hang on to the mantra that social traffic can’t make money. Maybe so, but there is a shitload of social traffic. I would argue that it might serve those in IM well if they learned how to monetize that huge flow of traffic. Seems like opportunity wasted ignoring the potential of Twitter, etc.

By: Jessie

Jessie — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:41:18 +0000

I don’t want anything to do with Twitter either. I have done some searches there and the only time it helped was when FatCow was down and I verified that some other people’s sites were down. For niche searches though, Twitter is useless.

By: Splork

Splork — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:40:01 +0000

It always depends on what you are looking for. Turn it around and try to find information on something you are looking for and see if you can find something worthwhile. I have no idea what you are pimping so maybe a Twitter search is useless in that regard. I have many sites that would be useless to try to promote on Twitter. But I’m building others that will take advantage of the topic’s buzz on Twitter.

Keep zigging while I zag. I’m always cool with that.

By: Mr. GoTo

Mr. GoTo — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:54:47 +0000

I just ran some searches in Twitter for info that people coming to my site would be searching for in Google. The Twitter results were 100% useless. So it all depends on what you are looking for. I’m afraid that Twitter is for the short-attention span crowd with low net worth. Who wants them coming to your site? Not me.