Comments on: Microsoft and Google search results to feature Twitter Tweets

By: Google Makes Search Social — Internet Marketing for Tourism

Google Makes Search Social — Internet Marketing for Tourism — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:14:24 +0000

[...] Google Search results to feature Twitter Tweets [...]

By: Todd Lucier

Todd Lucier — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:20:00 +0000

Thanks Carol. It’s all about presence. We’ll look at Web sites one day and say, what were we thinking?

By: Carol Verret

Carol Verret — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:16:46 +0000

This is a potential game changer — it dimishes the power of the web site and SEO. I addtion, comments about a destination or travel property, hotels, airlines etc. on Twiter have an immediacy that Trip Advisor will lose.
This development is more profund than squalble about Choice and Expedia. Any one remember the squabble between IHG and epedia?

By: chris

chris — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:08:03 +0000

OH goody another place for the spammy spammers to spread their spaminess. This ought to prove interesting as to how they filter people gaming their index from a feed source. This looks more like knee jerk stuff to me than actual advancement of technology. Why would i want to search on GorB for tweets when i can go to T itself. Why would a tweet be relevant to a top 10 result? Would it really unseat a site that is optimized for the term? I could see having some sort of side bar saying this is what people are tweeting about – myrtle beach vacations – for instance. but then again they would have to give up paid ad space to do that which isnt going to happen. Maybe a pay to tweet model where twitter shares the revenue with GorB ROFLMAO

By: Todd Lucier

Todd Lucier — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:50:52 +0000

Claude, sometimes in Canada we find ourselves quite a bit behind the US too. And even the US is way behind others – ie: Japan way ahead in handheld adoption. Mary Meeker’s presentation yesterday at Web 2.0 highlighted how handheld adoption leads to significantly higher posting of status updates!

Now 19% of folks report updating status – up from 11% in 2008.

I think what is most significant about this news is that Tweets will cross over into Search which will create revenue for Twitter (no more need to ask @biz or @ev about that)

Most importantly the tweets will influence search and be visible to even non-users which will increase adoption rates for Twitter world wide . . .

and in the world of updating status, look for social web sites like Flickr, Youtube and others to start offering status updates.
Soon, everyone can get in the game of making money off search.

By: Claude

Claude — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:17:52 +0000

Todd,

Thanks for this post and views on the real time web

I agree with your views, just to remind you that outside US and Canada, we don’t have acces to http://www.bing.com/twitter
(their messsage: sorry! Bing Twitter Search is not available in this locale.)

and also, for Example, in France, Twitter is a very small market share (around 600 000 twitter user, less than 2 % of all French web user, and not very active users as in US)

So, you will see the real time web before the european and french guys

Best

Claude