Comments on: Twitter Search vs. Google Search – How They Differ

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:16:56 +0000

Twitter search is outdated and full of irrelevant results. If i really need to search anything on twitter, all i do is search in google with query like “site:twitter.com keyword” rather than simple twitter search. I may not get realtime results though but way better and relevant. IMO.

By: Leora Wenger

Leora Wenger — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:35:09 +0000

Glad you checked them out online!

By: Ilana-Davita

Ilana-Davita — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:29:18 +0000

Thank you for your answers. For some reason I never got them in my mailbox.
.-= Ilana-Davita´s last blog ..Emails vs Facebook =-.

By: Leora Wenger

Leora Wenger — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:36:30 +0000

Other ways Twitter search differs from Google search:
1) Google search can be gamed. User may get less relevant results. So far, Twitter search is harder to game by SEO manipulation.
2) Twitter lets you ask people you know about things they know. “While Google uses robotic spiders to crawl the Web and give you keyword results, a Twitter user can simply ask friends about products, services or anything else,” says Shel Israel in his book.

By: Leora Wenger

Leora Wenger — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:43:33 +0000

“How to formulate a Twitter search” -
You go to http://search.twitter.com/ and type in some keywords? Not so different than Google searches. You can do something similar in TweetDeck.

Can you give an example of what you would like to find?

By: Leora Wenger

Leora Wenger — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:42:23 +0000

True for TweetDeck, although the answers are relevant to any Twitter search from any app.

By: Ilana-Davita

Ilana-Davita — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:48:06 +0000

BTW I still don’t understand how to formulate a Twitter search.
.-= Ilana-Davita´s last blog ..Salmon and Fennel =-.

By: Ilana-Davita

Ilana-Davita — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:47:23 +0000

Can you guess the other two ways that Twitter search differs from Google search? If you don't delete the column (at least in TweetDeck) the search is there each time you log in. .-= Ilana-Davita´s last blog ..Salmon and Fennel =-.