According to Google’s co-founder Larry Page, Google is falling behind to micro-blogging site in offering real time info for increasing web users’ demand.
However, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO says that they are looking for becoming a partner of the micro-blogging site.
We know well what happens in the world of social networking whenever some new site emerges, as it’s not a skeleton in a closet that what Facebook did with MySpace and now what Twitter is going to do not only against Facebook or even many other bigwigs of the web seem somewhat dazed with its rapid success. There were rumors that aside from many other big players of the tech world, Apple also wanted to acquire the micro-blogging site, but up till now none seems to succeed in these efforts.
Why everyone wants to acquire the Twitter, I think it’s not hard to find at all, as it has emerged as the third most visited social networking site in the United States in a very short span of time.
It allows users to post their thoughts, news and actions instantly, but the real thing behind its staggering success is the way it was hyped and the way celebrity-charm power was used for its popularity especially Oprah played an important role in its current popularity.
Google search engines takes considerable time to update, but it is quite understandable why it is so, as these search engines focus on the accuracy of the results rather than speed. But now, as the worldwide internet community seems to demand that they require faster information than ever before and Twitter seems to leave Google behind in this wake.
In his closing address at Google’s Zeitgiest conference, Page says: “ Now more and more looking to do things in real time and no doubt about it that Twitter is doing a great job in this connection, and I think we haven’t done something remarkable to create things that work on per second basis.
He also told the audience that he was asking his team to get even faster than ever before.
However, he admitted this fact that there is a vast different between ensuring the accuracy of the information and make them available instantly.
When asked about the buyout of Twitter, Schmidt declined to comment on the issue and just said that they are doing quite a good job right now.
Source: guardian.co.uk
Google’s search needs badly to be updated.. I view twitter as a real time search engine and use it as such to find the latest posts on any subject. I have had situations where i have posted fresh content on my sites with no other results worldwide to be found and it has taken Google 2 and a half weeks to display it in results even though my stats show them visiting my site everyday!
Worse is when you spend years building a site and a first time marketer that puts one article on a “hot” new site that google loves and gets a top ranking!