Google or Twitter: Who gives the best information and search ?
Google uses bots
Google uses bots to crawl the Internet in order to find new content.
Once found the content gets indexed by linking and keyword tagging. However there is no interpretation or summary of the content. There is no enhancement.
Twitter uses humans
Twitter uses humans to crawl the Internet in order to shift through the content.
If a human finds interesting content he will Tweet an interpretation or a summary of the content with a link. There is value in this enhancement.
Real-time
Google uses bots.
Twitter uses unpaid “Mechanical Turcs” (but not literally the Amazon variety).
Google is competing with the millions of humans on Twitter that enhance the information by their interpretation and subjectivity making the Tweets biased due to the human nature.
Will Google be able to remain in the lead and keep the quality ?
Google favors recent content as part of their algorithm.
However outdated and totally irrelevant content can still be on top of the search results if it has received many of links in the past.
Google even keeps track of ancient content that hasn’t been changed in years.
The Twitter content is fresh: real-time.
Depending on the number of people you follow, you could be missing a large part of the new content.
Finding tweets posted a few weeks ago are hard to find.
Best search
The best source of information can be both Google and Twitter depending on what you are looking for.
Still the freshness (real-time search) and the interpretation of the Twitter information draws more and more people to Twitter.
To make the comparison even more complex; Google has also its’ own competitor in house: YouTube as it has passed Yahoo into 2nd position.
Where do you look when you need to find information – depending on the type of information ?
Google was already been part of my life though twitter is just new compared to Google. I certainly agree that it really depend on what you are searching for. I guess for the old people or may I say not all old people uses Google since they are use to it, just like me.
For me personally, I would choose Google ( I am not saying I am old lol ) It is just I’m used to it.
So regardless if its Google or Twitter both are well known sites that has its advantage and disadvantage, it only depends on how you use it and if you are familiar to the site.