Comments on: Social Search: Could It Be a Google Killer?

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By: Sreeraman M.G

Sreeraman M.G — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:19:42 +0000

Well I would be rather uncomfortable if the search engines knows where I go, what I do and who my friends. I mean that’s too much information……

By: Spanish Nick

Spanish Nick — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:42:33 +0000

Google has real problems for the future but was is the Alternative. Google is about content and I think there obsessed with it then you have twitter which is the complete opposite. by the very nature of search results and Spiders Iam not sure what the alternative is.

By: Strategic management

Strategic management — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:23:52 +0000

The next frontier in search is going to be a personal one. People will stop believing in article information because it’s more than enough with varying contents. People will search experts instead of information. I believe the expertise will have to be free.

By: Harry Hallman

Harry Hallman — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:15:09 +0000

Perhaps you should add qualifiers to your search string. When you use one word searches, something most people don’t do, you get every mention of that word. In this case VoIP. Buy adding the word Free and USA it drops to 1.8 million. As you keep adding words to the string you get better results. Also, using advanced search helps you reduce the numbers. I have to say it is better than trying t o do your research in a library.
Still I understand your pain. That is why I suggested PPC ads on search engines. There are just so many pages of information on the Internet that it is becoming harder and harder to appear on the first few pages of a search.
As for Twitter, it may provide a good basic barometer on what people are interested in, but it is not a viable information source for getting details. Sill it has its value.

By: cafedave

cafedave — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:39:17 +0000

Sounds like a great innovation: I’d only ever taken the total number of search results as an indicator that (a) I was going to find what I was looking for somewhere on the internet or (b) my spelling of the search term was correct.
My hesitation with social search as you’ve described it is that it would narrow the results that are available: the brilliance of internet searching is that you come across results that your peer group or social contacts may never have thought to suggest or recommend.
I see social search as an augment to current search, but not as a replacement.

By: Paul Dunay

Paul Dunay — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:36:12 +0000

@ Matt – well said I like how you characterize search results as the net effect of SEO efforts
we certainly have desire around more real time search and Twitter search delivers on that
hopefully we will see more innovation in the search space soon

By: Matthew T. Grant

Matthew T. Grant — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:42:31 +0000

As I keep telling people, Google search results reflect the SEO efforts of the companies that appear on page one, not the relevance of the information to you the searcher. By contrast, Twitter search can give you more real-time and granular results because they are based on what people are talking about right now. Twitter search is not as “smart” as the search-of-the-future you describe, but it is already, for many uses, a viable option to Google.