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Try finding this on twitter: - who was Joan of Arc - the first movie of Elijah Wood - the capital of Somalia - atomic number of Molybdenum Twitter search i

Try finding this on twitter: - who was Joan of Arc - the first movie of Elijah Wood - the capital of Somalia - atomic number of Molybdenum Twitter search is good for personal interaction. Google search is good for everything else.

TweedHeads 18y ago
btw, just tried both twitter and google with above queries and here is the result: - twitter = nonsense - google = right answer in first page
jibiki 18y ago
The next question is, for the sort of search that you can sell ads against, where will people go. And the answer is still google...
- jlees 18y ago
  What about the sort of search like 'recommend a good restaurant in SF'? That's the sort of search you'd do on Twitter, where you know you get human replies not machine ones, or possibly a custom site like Yelp (still not Google). It's also the sort of thing you can sell ads against.
  - wumi 18y ago
    better yet, ask that on aardvark (vark.com)
    - pclark 18y ago
      got any invites for vark?
  - berntb 18y ago
    Huh, there hasn't been robots written to do that yet for Twitter? You'd think Twitter would have spam trouble like that, by now. (I guess that is an open niche for people doing natural language interaction... 1/2 :-)
    - jlees 18y ago
      <cough> Well, depends quite what you mean, but part of what I'm working on is understanding answers to questions like that. Without actively polling twitter (ie spamming 'Hey guys, what's...').
  - lacker 18y ago
    Search for [good restaurant in SF] on Google and you get a restaurant guide from the San Francisco Chronicle as the top web result. That's a lot faster than asking your twitter followers for it.
aswanson 18y ago
I would go to wikipedia for all of those.
- nostrademons 18y ago
  Luckily, the first or second result of a Google search for each of those links to Wikipedia. I find it's faster to do a Google search and click on the Wikipedia link than it is to go to Wikipedia and hit Search.
  - deleted 18y ago
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  - dsil 18y ago
    Search for: wiki Joan of Arc wiki Elijah Wood wiki Somalia wiki Molybdenum

TweedHeads 18y ago

btw, just tried both twitter and google with above queries and here is the result: - twitter = nonsense - google = right answer in first page

jibiki 18y ago

The next question is, for the sort of search that you can sell ads against, where will people go. And the answer is still google...

jlees 18y ago
What about the sort of search like 'recommend a good restaurant in SF'? That's the sort of search you'd do on Twitter, where you know you get human replies not machine ones, or possibly a custom site like Yelp (still not Google). It's also the sort of thing you can sell ads against.
- wumi 18y ago
  better yet, ask that on aardvark (vark.com)
  - pclark 18y ago
    got any invites for vark?
- berntb 18y ago
  Huh, there hasn't been robots written to do that yet for Twitter? You'd think Twitter would have spam trouble like that, by now. (I guess that is an open niche for people doing natural language interaction... 1/2 :-)
  - jlees 18y ago
    <cough> Well, depends quite what you mean, but part of what I'm working on is understanding answers to questions like that. Without actively polling twitter (ie spamming 'Hey guys, what's...').
- lacker 18y ago
  Search for [good restaurant in SF] on Google and you get a restaurant guide from the San Francisco Chronicle as the top web result. That's a lot faster than asking your twitter followers for it.

aswanson 18y ago

I would go to wikipedia for all of those.

nostrademons 18y ago
Luckily, the first or second result of a Google search for each of those links to Wikipedia. I find it's faster to do a Google search and click on the Wikipedia link than it is to go to Wikipedia and hit Search.
- deleted 18y ago
  [deleted]
- dsil 18y ago
  Search for: wiki Joan of Arc wiki Elijah Wood wiki Somalia wiki Molybdenum