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Scary that in the race to get the jump on realtime search that common sense basics as mentioned above are forgotten.
We talk about noise in the social networks, think the search engines have brought the noise to search. The "new car smell" will wear off soon.
Perhaps we will have realtime search blindness... similar to banner blindness?
Vr 11 dec 2009, 09:44
Tweets being included in the real time results is a fantastic idea but this has opened the door to a new generation of spammers. In turn the new generation of spammers will cause harm for those looking for genuine results and information.
Twitter, facebook, myspace are here to stay and Google made a good move accepting this and building this into Google 2.0, but it is a little early for a full launch.
Vr 11 dec 2009, 16:10