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There could soon be another powerful search engine to rival the current superpowers of Google, Yahoo and MSN. It seems Twitter Search is undergoing something of a makeover; taking it from simply reporting the latest tweets, to actually indexing URLs that are being included within messages.
Whilst there would be a good deal fewer websites indexed than your conventional search engine, they would be moderated to an extent by the Twitter users and updated in real-time. This represents something of a departure from the algorithmic searches we’ve become accustomed to and could even open up a whole new method of online marketing, should the concept take off.
Real-Time User Moderated Twitter Search
Rather than being simply keyword orientated, this new system will rely on the popularity of the site amongst Twitter’s users. In turn, each user will have a different weighting depending on their credibility; helping to eradicate spammers and superfluous sites, whilst ensuring only genuinely popular sites come to the fore.
The brainchild of Twitter’s new VP of Operations Santosh Jayaram, who coincidentally used to be VP of Search Quality at Google not all that long ago, Twitter Search could certainly be something to watch out for in the coming months.
A process where by the search engines place the most relevant websites in their index so they can be returned in the natural search results.
Google is now taking minutes to index web pages instead of days according to a recent article by Manoi Jasra for Search Engine Guide. This is probably Google’s response to the fast paced blogging trends that mean content on the internet is now being updated at a much faster rate.
This goes to show that your content can be indexed and appearing in Google’s search results faster than ever which is great news for web site owners with fast moving content that want to get their news to the internet as fast as possible.
