There is so much hoo ha about Twitter killing Google and Twitter being the future search tool. Every single article that you read about Twitter is that they do things in real time, real time discussions and buzz, which is something that Google’s results do not really do and do not really cater for at the moment.

Google has responded with so many different methods, the most recent being feeding in Twitter results into the SERPs and having the option to bring in results that were updated in the last hour. But in my personal opinion twitter is a social site like any other site. There are some downsides to the service in my opinion, which are as follows.

Information
Information and news is all very well and good being in real time, but what if someone wants to find old archived information or read older stories, can they do that? No they simply cannot, because it’s all in real time and sites are actually never crawled and indexed, it is going to be very hard.

Products
Now this in my opinion is the main killer for Twitter and it’s something that Google are doing wrong too. Google are now trying to bring in more real time results and results which are current that people have just posted or talked about. Every non tech person (the mass user) I know uses either EBay, Google or Amazon to buy something, with Google probably being the first choice. They do this because one, it’s easy just type into the search and away you go. Two it’s relevant, Google have never let me down when I want to buy something, they deliver the most trusted sites to me. Now what could these product searches do instead? Search on Twitter and get conversations? No thanks, or create an account and ask your 0 followers to help you out? Or I know, grow your network communicate with people you do not know and ask them, but why? Why would anyone do that? People have busy lives and they do not have enough time to constantly update their tweets. What easier solution then to go to Google and type in what you are looking for, does it have to be real time. No, not at all, trusted products from trusted sites which have built that trust with hard work and clever advertising.

Now do not get me wrong twitter has a place in the market for news and stories, but Google is so much more than that, maybe they are beating Google on the news front and if Google want to jump on that bandwagon and fill their SERPs with real time STORIES then fine, maybe it would be a better way for them to earn revenue. I mean what a clever idea to fill the SERPs with ever changing info and letting the businesses (products), battle it out on the PPC side of things. But I can tell you they are going to lose a lot of users if they do as Google is not just an information engine. Twitter is a social site just like any other that we need to use in conjunction not against. MSN Messenger does exactly the same job for me but better, I talk to people I know in real time and can ask them anything I want. I do not think Twitter can ever overtake Google, but can be a useful tool to use if you have the time, which a lot of non tech people do not. I mean was MySpace not a Google killer? Was Digg Not? Wolfram Alpha, Cuil? Stumble? Twitter is a great real time news and information addition to Google; all this makes Google a better search engine.

For a short while yesterday, every page displayed by Google reported messages and warnings about harms affecting your computer. This was in a way that every URL you find in search results have the text displayed as the site might harm the computer.

The Google pages displayed in search results when clicked will display advisory warnings similar to the malware infested websites. The suggestions to the users were given as returning to the previous page for picking results or trying another search for finding out what the users were looking for.

Google has reported that this bug lasted only for around for 40 minutes and this was resolved within a time frame of 55 minutes. This was only a human error which helped when Google tries to flag the sites which are known for installing malwares.

The errors for the pages were noticed at around 6.27 AM and 6.40 AM. This began disappearing at around 7.10 AM and 7.25 AM. The duration of this problem for any user was only for 40 minutes.

Some blogs started reporting this news as a means by which the service was denied to the Google users. Some sites considered it a menace when users try to find out more information from their sites. They hence started showing expectations saying Google will take steps to prevent such things in the future.

This New Year, Yahoo brings something special for their readers and users. A team member from Yahoo has come up with a new category of search engine which is specially designed for the purpose of searching news. This was mainly intended at bringing a new innovation in the search world.

This is expected to bring more recent and latest news for the users of Yahoo. The earlier search engine of Yahoo will post news on the basis of the time when it as posted. This is done by stacking the news in a timely manner and displaying according to the latest news. The new search engine overcome all the difficulties due to this and comes up with a new method by which the old news could be updated at any time.

The TweetNews, as this is called will bring matching updates from Twitter tweets and other relevant news from Yahoo news. This will be combined and displayed to the users. This will act as a unique and attractive platform for both Twitter as well as BOSS. This can also act as a ranking signal and can be used to check and confirm the freshness of the news. This is expected to hit the market with great expectations.

Yahoo and CBS Radio have reached an agreement where CBS will allow Yahoo users to get around 150 radio stations free of cost. The partnership is expected to have its kick off in 2009, which will bring more benefits to the Yahoo users. Through this partnership, Yahoo users will get all information related to music, news and sports. 

The partnership with CBS Radio will expand the extensive media portfolio of Yahoo. The portfolio has a strong base of print and video providers from various categories. This will expand with the agreement, thereby becoming the best provider in Internet. It will bring a diverse collection of programs from music, news and sports programs for the massive audience of Yahoo. 

This movement from the part of CBS radio is considered to be a support for the streaming media. As a result, this will enhance the position of CBS Radio as the leading internet company in the internet. 

Audience will be offered a great exposure to more deep content. Advertisers will be able to get a more possible audience which will increase local as well as national sales. This has shown that internet and radio stations have reached a place where both of them work in close coordination and need each other. This will help advertisers a lot where they have been affected by the current situation in internet.

As a webmaster, you want to find the best sources to back link and populate. As a surfer, you obviously want to find just what you need within the shortest possible time, rather than have to open multiple pages on a new tab just trying to locate what you need. One would think what a waste of time. Of course all the information you need is online, but do you know how to look at it. Make search engines work for you and reduce the time spent looking for what you need.

When you key in keywords, instead of typing in multiple keywords that will result in too many finds, use your target search terms in quotes. As such, if you are looking for SEO news in the business niche, type in “SEO news business”, instead of SEO news business, because the results will be far too many for the latter.

If you are looking for information on light but not electric supplies, your search input should look like light -bulb. Of course, you’ll have to use average intelligence to get to the right search times but this will save you a lot of time and guarantee a larger degree of search oriented finds rather than random finds.

Of course, English as a language is widely accepted as the language of the internet. However, what do you do when you get an enormous number of submissions in other languages? When the Sphinn social news site was launched, this problem plagued everyone. What was one supposed to do with the Japanese submissions? Maybe for English speaking internet readers this problem didn’t look quite as huge but truth is how was all the spam that got submitted to be monitored. Traffic congestion and mismatches were likely.

Thanks to Kenichi Suzuki, and developer Sera Hiroyuki, now you can breathe a sigh of relief because Sphinn Japan is here, a great step in the SEO world that’s going to help channelize things. It also does pave the way for the development of other foreign language inclusions in mainstream site building and submissions.

This is great news for internet marketers as it allows limitless growth and management in the online world. It’s a global scenario now; certainly the SEO and online marketing opportunities are likely to increase encompassing a much larger audience. With the SEO world getting bigger each moment, it is important to know that previous limitations may not be there anymore and this will help you increase your scope of work.

The good old days are dead, what happened to you digg? The site that used to be user generated has fallen prey to the big guns and has fallen victim to there own success. Its a shame how we always see the same domains being made popular although the storys are so boring that my grandma would not even read! Just to entail how diggs algo has changed I would like to show you, or maybe they do not have an algo at all I believe they just have a few editors that will post.

Just take a look at this for one example:

http://digg.com/tech_news/Plurk_The_Near_Perfect_Lifestreaming_Experience_Has_Arrived

Over 200+ diggs and the story still did not go popular. Why because digg is a sham, the days are gone where the users got to promote which story they love no matter where the source was from. Now BBC, CNN, Techcrunch and all the other big guns have a slice of digg and noone else can get there foot in. Yes you heard it right here digg and other big user generated sites are abusing there members to bring in the fast cash they are taking advantage of the web 2.0 bubble and if they dont sort themselves out they will end up bursting it.

An update this story has now been classed as inaccurate apparently by users!! hmmm I wonder how that can be when it got so many diggs in the first few hours. Again work of editors not users they have no right its not adult, gambling or spam, with this many diggs it should have gone popular but theres no way they would let that happen

The link is here http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg_is_no_longer_user_generated