Facebook has begun rolling out a new version of its search feature, which it began testing with a select few last month. Of course, this would be real-time search, in the company's latest effort to move into Twitter territory.
Twitter may be rocking Google's world, but what about Twitter's world? There has been a lot of hype surrounding Twitter search (and real-time search in general) as the way search is going.
Earlier this year, Twitter began integrating Twitter Search (formerly Summize) into its home page. Just about a week ago, it became available there for everybody.
Update: Mark Carey has created a script using Greasemonkey that allows users to put Twitter Search Results directly in Google Results. He shares the following screenshot:
It’s hard to imagine the death of search as we know it, but search is changing as we speak, and unless Google finds some flexibility, the company will be at the forefront of innovation no longer. The dent in Google’s armor comes from rather surprising directions, not from Microsoft or Yahoo—both with their own rigid corporate paralysis—but from Twitter and Facebook, where users create their very own walled gardens.
Recently Twitter has inspired a lot of talk about “real time search,” about whether this type of searching is the future, and about whether it is a threat to Google, or an attractive acquisition target for Google. It could be all of those things but it’s also going to be a spam magnet that will have to be dealt with eventually.
No evidence of that just yet. A calculated bet only.
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