Is Twitter The New Google?

It’s been said many times in passing remarks that Twitter is a better search tool than Google, and it seems like Twitter is taking those comments to heart.

They’ve changed their homepage with the main focus on search.

I think Twitter has big advantages over Google:

• The time it takes to index something of importance is just as fast as someone can type it.
• Google uses algorithms to index content.  Twitter uses real people that don’t care anything about the junk and spam that show up in Google everytime you search for something.
• Twitter gives the people a quick and very easy way to mark something as spam once it enters the Twitter stream
• Twitter beats even the news in how fast breaking stories get listed.  Google just can’t compete.

How Twitter Will Monetize Itself

I think the biggest thing to look at in terms of Twitters move in the search world is how we finally see it making money.  Those “trending topics” you see on the right side of the search results… those will eventually transform into paid links.

Search is where the money is, and Twitter knows it.  I personally believe they’ve been planning this move since day one.  Especially if you look at how Biz Stone’s relationship with Google has been.

So what do you think!  Is Twitter the new Google?  Will it become #1 for search.  If they ever figure out the issue with twitter streams not showing up after 30 days in search, I think they’ve got it nailed!