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Ask HN: (Twitter Search)*3 = Google Search?
Twitter search is now serving 1 billion searches a day:
http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now-3x-faster_1656.html
And according to this, Google is serving about 3 billion searches per day:
http://searchengineland.com/by-the-numbers-twitter-vs-facebook-vs-google-buzz-36709
If that's true, then that's incredible. Twitter is already 1/3th the size of Google in terms of searches? Am I getting this right?
- petervandijck 16y agoClicky: http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now-3x-faster_1656.html http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/04/twitter-search-is-now... and http://searchengineland.com/by-the-numbers-twitter-vs-facebook-vs-google-buzz-36709 http://searchengineland.com/by-the-numbers-twitter-vs-facebo...
- MatthewPhillips 16y agoI wonder how many of those are bots. Twitter has big opportunity in search but I find the experience to be poor. Search for a topic and 2/3rds, if not more, are retweets. It's not hard to filter out "^(RT:){1}.+$" but yet Twitter hasn't done it yet.