Comments on: Why No Twitter Search from the Big Guys?

By: AdnElric

AdnElric — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:22:42 +0000

Why would anyone expect something from Yahoo anymore? Come on, embrace the future. :p

There's plenty of ways Google could emulate Twitter, implement and develop something of his own and integrate it on blogger, gmail or gtalk.

Now that the Facebook API is open, this could the perfect timing for Google to do so. Always in the pursuit of indexing and organizing worlds information, be it generated by Twitter, FB or GoogleNOW (just especulating :p).

One thing I certainly agree with, it's going to be fascinating!

By: tv

tv — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:14:07 +0000

I’ve lost faith in Y’s ability to ‘own’ any phenomenon, let alone something on the scale of what twitter’s up to. I truly wish they could pull a rabbit out of their hat, but I’m not holding my breath.

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:03:43 +0000

They can’t even do blog search well, but if we’re going to ask Google and Yahoo! to do a Twitter search then we should also ask them to do a Facebook search, a DIGG search, a StumbleUpon search (especially StumbleUpon), and finally a Dumb SEO Ideas search.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:03:32 +0000

Tweeter is certainly a rising power on the internet and i find a lot of really cool stuff there.

By: Bertil Hatt

Bertil Hatt — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:18:16 +0000

I’m not sure Yahoo! wants to be a search engine anymore — or that those who want will have the means to. Just like Apple’s strategy to have other people make the iPhone cool thanks to an easy-to-use SDK really works, Yahoo! can do far better with its API and BOSS by extending “offering tools to community leaders” to “allowing community organizers to set up dedicated search engines”. Twitter might be a news revolution coming, it is still a small community.

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:23:45 +0000

Great post John. Just tweeted it.

By: nmw

nmw — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:47:50 +0000

@KevinRose tipped me off to polldaddy.COM's new (?) twitter app -- so I asked:

Which online service do you need more 24/7 -- Google or Twitter? Or another website?

http://poll.fm/rluz/

By: Tom Nocera

Tom Nocera — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:30:19 +0000

A first tonight occurred on Twitter. As an experiment, a timely bit of Presidential news was released first on Twitter. (The discovery by Bruce Harrison, founder of the Family Forest Project, that Barack Obama and President Abraham Lincoln share DNA. We will know in the next 24 hours or so, if Twitter has a future in news dissemination. I’m convinced that it does.

By: Chris Allison

Chris Allison — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:56:44 +0000

John,

Why no mention of Microsoft? Are they not even a competitor on any search level anymore? Just curious of your thoughts.

-Chris

By: Ian Hendry

Ian Hendry — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:09:50 +0000

I am not sure what Twitter has that either Yahoo or Google would envy. It's not users - Twitter has barely more than 6m user and 80% of those access Twitter through some other application. It's not technology - Twitter is largely Open Source, plans to hand stuff back and it's not tough to knock up something functionally equivalent. OK, it's a neat "platform" but not hard for either of the giants to emulate and roll out to the Yahoo! Messenger, Y! Mail or GMail bases.

Even if Twitter was truning in revenues, they would be a pin-prick within their existing revenues.

I love Twitter but seriously, other than for the column inches they get in the tech press, why would they want it?

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz