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In this edition of our weekly Twitter column I’d like to ridicule Twitter search. Yes, no mistake here. We know now, after I’ve predicted it a few weeks ago that

Twitter search will finally rank tweets

instead of just showing the latest ones.

Search Engine Land asked when the news Twitter search ranking will get live but they received a “no comment” kind of reply. Twitter search is at least 10 years late when it comes to search technology so a few weeks or months sooner or later do not matter. Also, who needs Twitter search?


I’ve mentioned third party Twitter search engine Topsy in the past. Topsy is the IMHO best Twitter search engine around. Topsy already rates or ranks tweets according to several factors like most  probably the number of tweets and the influence of the Twitter users.

Twitter and nofollow is the topic of this week’s Twitter column: While even Google who has introduced, along with other search engines, the nofollow attribute to combat spam a few years ago does not propagate the use of it anymore, Twitter went nofollow big time just recently. What does this mean?

Twitter distrusts everything you say.

Not only outgoing links get the so called link condom so that search engines ignore them. No, now also internal links from your tweets on Twitter get wasted. This means that even when you address us with @seoptimise we don’t get the Google juice due.

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Google changes faster than you can blink right now. Just some buzzwords that will bug you in 2010:

  1. Google Caffeine
  2. Google Real Time search
  3. Google Personalized search results
  4. Google Living Stories
  5. Google Phone

I could go on like for a while. It’s not my intention to confuse you even more though. I want to shed some light on the near future of Google, search and SEO. It’s a daunting task as I’m overwhelmed as well.

Thus I picked 30 resources on Google, search & SEO changes in 2010 from around the search industry and some main stream sources.

This week Twitter search was the number one topic in the Twittersphere.

Twitter search results above Google's own

You don’t have to be a prophet to foresee what’s coming up in 2009 and beyond. Why? Most of the future web trends are already unfolding. For others the foundations are laid by hardware, web infrastructure and the broader economy.