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Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction?

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Re: Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction?

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Post by tectonic »

gojomo wrote: post #5

"Dear Google: Please buy Twitter. Signed, a Twitter investor." The idea that real-time search will be big is still interesting. However, seeking a twitch-timescale update on everything is ultimately a bad habit, except among certain kinds of professional investors. Considering the author's example of a mysterious rumble in Fall's Church, Virginia: people don't benefit from the distraction of twitter-scale updates; th…

Although using Twitter for real-time emergency response at a governmental or NGO level sounds quite interesting.

Re: Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction?

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Post by trapper »

mattmaroon wrote: post #8

This is beyond ridiculous. Real time search is something you care about a tiny, tiny fraction of a percent of the time. And when you do, Twitter is still pretty near worthless. You heard a plane crashed in the river, so you search Twitter, and see a bunch of posts like "OMG a plane crashed in a river, now I'm going to the gym." and maybe a picture of a submerged plane. Who cares? You won't destroy Google by building…

Maybe people will wake up and realise that real time doesn't actually matter; you can easily keep up to date polling 1-2x per month if you really wanted to.

It's not like anything truly vanguard happens more than a few times per year in most industries. And it's not twitter or bloggers that do it. Real innovation happens so infrequently that it's pretty easy to keep up if you have a system.

Unfortunately most young programmers I talk to don't even read papers [where the real action happens]!! They read blogs & twitter. Perhaps they don't realize that this IS science, and the plural of anecdotes on twitter et al do not make data.

Re: Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction?

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Post by angstrom »

tectonic wrote: post #11
gojomo wrote: post #5

"Dear Google: Please buy Twitter. Signed, a Twitter investor." The idea that real-time search will be big is still interesting. However, seeking a twitch-timescale update on everything is ultimately a bad habit, except among certain kinds of professional investors. Considering the author's example of a mysterious rumble in Fall's Church, Virginia: people don't benefit from the distraction of twitter-scale updates; th…

Although using Twitter for real-time emergency response at a governmental or NGO level sounds quite interesting.

If by interesting you mean the twitter 'Fail Whale' + FEMA, then yes, that would be...interesting.

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Post by patio11 »

nostrademons wrote: post #10
mattmaroon wrote: post #8

This is beyond ridiculous. Real time search is something you care about a tiny, tiny fraction of a percent of the time. And when you do, Twitter is still pretty near worthless. You heard a plane crashed in the river, so you search Twitter, and see a bunch of posts like "OMG a plane crashed in a river, now I'm going to the gym." and maybe a picture of a submerged plane. Who cares? You won't destroy Google by building…

The killer app for real time search seems to be in figuring out whether this week's Heroes episode is worth watching.

I think

washeroesgoodthisweek.com

is still open. Sadly, I think you can get the job done with one static HTML page these days, and it does not include YES in it.

Edit: My little brother remarked to me, regarding "What GPS tracking unit?": "It seems like there is only one good writer on Heroes, and his contract dictates that he only be told to work on scenes between Hiro and Ando."

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