Comments on: Twitter vs Google – Who Wins the Real-Time Search Battle?

By: whoisbid

whoisbid — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 03:38:11 +0000

I am surprised that there has not been more feedback on this article. Breaching the time gap for realtime feeds to appear in another search engine must be taking up enormous resources

By: Replyz Team

Replyz Team — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:01:50 +0000

Another dimension of the debate is whether or not Twitter can compete as a real-time source for getting answers to questions. Although people are only just beginning to tap Twitter’s potential as a Q&A community, here’s an example of the questions people are asking on Twitter about iAds and the answers they’re getting: http://replyz.com/t/iads?replies=has_replies The first iAds question inspired 11 responses, for example.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:27:00 +0000

Loving the trending results on Twitter, whoever this Justin Beiber guy is, he is popular!

By: | The MBA Blog

| The MBA Blog — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:32:33 +0000

[...] far better when it comes to shock announcements and real time search – check this analysis of the Apple iAds launch. If it is able to provide a strong ad platform alongside this to bring in a revenue feed are we [...]

By: mktngmallorca (Marketing Mallorca)

mktngmallorca (Marketing Mallorca) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:38:20 +0000

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By: Kevin Gibbons

Kevin Gibbons — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:37:32 +0000

Kelvin, I saw them too – but they then seemed to disappear. Definitely think there’s more Google could do to quickly improve organic results for these type of breaking news searches.

Daniel, the real-time/social search results are definitely the first step – I do expect there’s more to come from Google on this though.

By: Daniel Bianchini

Daniel Bianchini — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:52:15 +0000

Hi Kevin,
Another great article.

I was listening to a podcast the other day around the same topic regarding breaking news. They talked about the recent disaster in Haiti and how Twitter was a much quicker resource to find out what was going on than Google, stating that Google was taking upto 6 hours to show any results.

Bing have created a real time search travel section where they show the most recent results from your search. This provides the user with real time prices that can change in weekly, daily or even hourly.

I beleive Google will try to improve their current algorithm to rival Twitter but they need to do it quickly.

Any ideas on how they will make this work for them and how they could improve their current real time search feature?

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:46:03 +0000

I did get the real time search triggered just on iAds search about an hour after the announcement, which I thought wasn’t too bad