Oh, I see what you mean now. I've never had any particular need for that. And twitter's search is pretty crappy for anything else; and the signal to noise ratio

Oh, I see what you mean now. I've never had any particular need for that. And twitter's search is pretty crappy for anything else; and the signal to noise ratio and general quality of its content is awful either way. So no, I don't think Google is outdated. They serve very different use cases.