November 29, 2008

Twitter is now my favorite micro search engine (context, relevance, timeliness built-in)

Picture_37  Another 2 years and we'll have a viable Google competitor.

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Nov 29, 2008 12:07:19 PM | Google, Predictions, Search, Twitter

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