Twoogle
The other way my fiancee and I were walking down the Robson st. where we spotted a flee of paparazzi probably standing by for some celebrities shootings. Then my fiancee reminded me that the twilight actor, Robert Pattison is in town for shooting the upcoming twilight sequel, moonlight. She was really curious to see whether those paparazzi are actually waiting for him to snatch some photos. Right there I found an opportunity to put twitter at test to see if anybody in town is actually talking about this. So I pulled out my iPhone and pointed the browser to search.twitter.com. A simple google-search like interface comes up so I entered his name and pressed the search button. To my surprise I found tons of tweets from people in Vancouver who have sighted the actor and the location they had seen him. Although I didn’t find any tweets regarding the paprazzi, but I felt like I’ve found something bigger instead.
I realized that I treated search.twitter.com the same way I treat Google to search for information.That felt so natural as if we I am searching using Google. The difference was that twitter search offers real-time data generated by everybody as opposed to Google that only searches the indexed data available on the web. I found this real time search very powerful in terms of finding news relative to me and my precise Geo-Location. I think an integration of Google search engine with the twitter real-time conversions can offer search results that far more targeted, hence and more usable.