Reading tweets and stories that @Biz reported that Twitter search is up 33% in a month (and it’s a month old data). So I started exploring related posts.
SearchEngineLand does a great job of analyzing it (using the month older data)
Twitter does 18 billion searches a month, working off the 600 million per day figure? Williams said the monthly figure is closer to 19 billion.
How’s that compare against the major search engines? Working off comScore figures from December 2009 for worldwide search queries, we have:
- Google: 88 billion per month
- Twitter: 19 billion per month
- Yahoo: 9.4 billion per month
- Bing: 4.1 billion per month
Where do you search?
Interesting — what are people searching for on twitter? How does that differ from what we do with google? Looking for information on google. Looking for connections on twitter?
I am curious how Twitter will (if possible) improve its searching features and options! Obvious, Google has a head start here, but people are searching tweets and looking up sources on Twitter!
if Twitter just allow queries as it does, it has a built in advantage over GOOG.. it's “real time”
adding operators to search just your feed, or narrow search would be nice. Some of that's there.. but lot's more could be done
Twitter is “REAL TIME”.. you get what people are talking about right now.. not “all the web”