Comments on: Why Google Should Fear Twitter: Twitter The Answer Machine

By: IT Support London

IT Support London — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:57:35 +0000

The thing with using Google is that you can get your answer immediately, provided you can sort through all the text related nonsense first. It means if you have an immediate query, Google is there and you can access a wider range of resources.
But if you want to get a specific answer to your question and you have time, twitter may work for you. It won’t kill Google and Google don’t need to be wary because you can ask questions that you’d ask on twitter absolutely anywhere online but Google can do search results like no other.

By: SEO Services

SEO Services — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:15:55 +0000

That’s an interesting article. But I personally think that twitter and Google are completely diffident thing and I don’t think there is any comparison or competition between two of them. I mean people use twitter as a social media place where they can share their views, feelings, sites and can make new friends and contacts for their business. On the other hand Google is most popular search engine which is useful for searching anything – anytime. There may be many people who are using Google from many years and still not using twitter at all.

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:13:32 +0000

In reply to Bryan King.

Bryan, we do live in a “I want it now” society but have you ever tried to wade your way through the Q&A sites that dominate Google’s SERPs for many questions?

Not to mention the fact that once you DO find an answer, you have no idea how authoritative it is.

By: Bryan King

Bryan King — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:29:05 +0000

The real threat to Google and it’s source of revenue is what happened here… (not searching for answers to an immediate question) but Twitter posts (from blogs and interests people have) with direct links to websites. In the past I would have searched Google to find websites and blogs about my interests. In this case, I buypassed the “search” (and the advertisers) via Twitter. I wonder if it will only be a matter of time before Twitter realizes the mass amount of “advertising” income they are leaving on the table.

By: Ahmed@SportingTonic

Ahmed@SportingTonic — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:28:24 +0000

That makes sense. In the land where we rely on machineries, computers and robots, we tend to forget that the touch of a human being sometimes works best at solving your answers/problems. Unless it’s one of those annoying auto-generated replies, Twitter has that human influence. At the end of the day, the human brain is better than a computer (well I hope so, otherwise we would be living in a scene from iRobots).

By: Ytzen Lont

Ytzen Lont — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:26:46 +0000

In stead of one person, just me, searching for an answer at Google now ten persons are searching for the same answer at Google, to report it back to me through Twitter. What has Google to worry about?

By: James Martell

James Martell — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:26:12 +0000

I agree. I was not a “Twitter” person for the longest time. In fact, I thought it was a waste of time. I would say now that I am a full on tweople. I use it everyday and have gathered a nice responsive following.

I do think FaceBook as well as mentioned by Vee Sweeney is a very formidable opponent. Even my wife who has been extremely resistant to everything FaceBook is now a closet user now that she’s discovered our daughter uploads all the baby photos of our new grand daughter.

James
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By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:52:07 +0000

LOVE the post! To your point (sort of), I found it on Twitter, and I just tweeted it out. My only comment is… often one’s questions get lost in twitter, so you get precisely zero responses to your queries. On google, you ALWAYS have responses.

I have a pretty engaged following, which I estimate at approximately 10% (300 engaged out of 3,000 followers). If Twitter is truly to be a competitor to Google, they need to figure out the engagement piece.

Kelly

By: Bryan King

Bryan King — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:04:39 +0000

No way… we live in a “I want it now” society… Twitter just would take to long to get the right answer or take to much time to sort through all the wrong answers or overly opinionated answers… What would the difference be? Nothing! Keep dreaming…it is all about time and convienence. Like it or not (I have no opinion, just want my answers… right now!) Google is a Juggernaut!

By: Ben Cook

Ben Cook — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:15:24 +0000

In reply to Vee Sweeney.

Vee, you know you’re probably right, however, I’m not nearly as active on Facebook as I am on Twitter so I don’t see that kind of interaction as much.

Also, Twitter is more wide open so even if I don’t follow you (or friend you), you can still answer my question.

In fact, more often than not by simply including the correct hash tag, you can get in front of topic experts on Twitter.

That sort of interaction is not possible on Facebook.