First off: Google bought Jaiku, Twitter's competitor. If anything, they'll be focusing on making Jaiku competitive.
Second off: Google indexes some sites every minute. That's pretty close to instantaneous: with the exception of real news obsessives, it's at the very least adequate.
Third off: the fact that people write articles like this about Google shows that Google is still relevant. And until somebody creates search that isn't better but revolutionarily better than Google, it will remain that way.
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First off: Google bought Jaiku, Twitter's competitor. If anything, they'll be focusing on making Jaiku competitive.
Second off: Google indexes some sites every minute. That's pretty close to instantaneous: with the exception of real news obsessives, it's at the very least adequate.
Third off: the fact that people write articles like this about Google shows that Google is still relevant. And until somebody creates search that isn't better but revolutionarily better than Google, it will remain that way.
It's a nice thought, Rich, but this won't happen. Twitter has already turned down acquisition offers.