I’m typically on Twitter to socially market may safety and security web site as well as raise awareness for it’s products through interaction with my followers, so this is great news. I like finding people who feel vulnerable or threatened in some way or simply those who want to increase their safety and security level. Thanks, Chris, for this information.

How does this challenge google? It is only searching some of Twitter’s site.

If they wanted to challenge google, pick some lesser known search engine like cull and put that on its front page for searching the web.

Another excellent idea to improve Twitter’s quality.

Someday they have to tie in their search features or partner up.
I think it’s great that Twitter is finally working on that homepage. I find them invaluable & have changed the way I watch events on tv like SuperBowl, Daytona & award shows because I pull up tweet streams to view all the comments from my contacts.
Twitter created a new way to be in touch with 1,000′s simultaneously with common interests. Can’t wait to see what comes next.

Did we all blow a gasket and forget what search is used for? It is to find information and 140 characters about how I woke up today and thought I would invent nuclear fuzees, is not what one would call “information”

Googles’ Mission Statement is not likely to be altered to fit some pundits ideas of what Twitter search might do…..

Maybe I just don’t get it.
Searching Twitter or any other social site in real time may be interesting of course.

That’s a whole other boll game than searching the web, for stored information. It requires spidering the web for said information, sorting, storing and tagging it in big databases, to make any sense.

At this point in time it isn’t possible to search the whole web in real time, and I doubt that will be the case for a very long time

As I understand it, the web is growing faster than it may be seached.

My conclusion would be, that two good things, like real time search of a limited number of social discussion sites, and the search for spidered, evaluated and stored information, don’t compete.

Cheers!

greetings,

i’m actually anxious to see how it works. for my personal experience, i often don’t find what i’m looking for in several social websites, either searching for people or music for instense.

cheers from Sahara Desert!

Weather google likes or wants to do it they will have to keep up to the growing demand

Great concept, Tweeting has come along way.

rubbish that people talk about on Twitter. I have stopped following so many people as they just tweet a load of drivel. I don’t think live search is going to worry google at all. And also, my website is targetted towards people in the 40+ age group of the majority of them have never even heard of Twitter.

I agree with the comment above that most people are looking for high quality relevant information that is sourced, not some random persons off the cuff ideas about a topic. Most of what is found on Twitter is trivial in nature so I doubt it is a threat to Google. If any thing it helps to get the real time trivial exchanges out of the way.

Both the static and real time content can coexist nicely online.

There is a company who offers semantic search over twitter in additions to flickr and any other website. It’s really cool.