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What does Larry Page Think about Twitter ?

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Twitter’s exponential growth has had big brother Google lose sleep over its inability to index real time search results. Its not only the big wigs at Google who are worried about Twitters growth but also its founder Larry Page is worried about Google’s inability on real time searches. No wonder it pitched hard to buy Twitter.

What does Larry Page Think about Twitter ?
“I have always thought we needed to index the web every second to allow real time search. At first, my team laughed and did not believe me. Now they know they have to do it. Not everybody needs sub-second indexing but people are getting pretty excited about real time.”

Google has just posted the full video of Larry Page comments on Twitter which you can find at 19:08 (this link will take you directly to these comments) , the transcript of the conversation is below :

Can you comment on the growth of Twitter and Google plans to integrate real time?

“people really want to stuff real time and they (twitter) have done a really good job about. We have done a relatively poor job of doing things that work on a per second basis. I have been telling our search team that they need to search on a per second basis. They laughed at me and said it’s ok it’s just a few minutes old.

I said “no” it needs to be every second. Now I think they understand that. I think we will do a better job at some of those things now that we have these examples. It does take time to really integrate information. If you really want up to the second information it is not going to be as good as if you wait up to a couple of minutes. That’s an important aspect of what’s going on, you need to make people get sense of things. I am not sure everybody needs to see stuff every second, I am not sure that’s the right model either.”

Below is the entire video that references Larry Page about Twitter

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49 comments

Terry@ Medical Scrubs May 27, 2009 - 2:57 am
Larry sure knows what he wants. After his comments, it is easy to see why Twitter is as huge as it is today.
Web Marketing Blog May 27, 2009 - 7:38 am
Hi Terry, Twitter is a growing threat to Google no doubt about it, to add to the growth its got a great value proposition in its product - the ability to show real time searches. The search giant Google is in a fix on this one, the dynamics of search is going to change in the next six months. Its going to be exciting times in search marketing :) Web Marketing Blogs last blog post..What does Larry Page Think about Twitter ?
Terry@ Medical Scrubs May 27, 2009 - 10:06 pm
Yup, that's why Google is so keen on getting its hand on Twitter. My only qualm about the big T (lol) is its perceived lack of protection. It's been hacked several times already. Also, they have to do a better job at keeping spammers at bay. And we all know there's a lot of spam on Twitter right now.
Web Marketing Blog May 28, 2009 - 9:37 am
You are right, Twitter needs to invest in infrastructure for a faster experience and to keep hackers at away. I am sure they are working on this two things. Hopefully we ll see a better Twitter experience soon :) Web Marketing Blogs last blog post..What does Larry Page Think about Twitter ?
Goverment Money Club May 27, 2009 - 10:52 am
Good see the great Video thanks ZK
Superfruit May 27, 2009 - 12:45 pm
Hi dude, I think google is right in this deal and belive it twitter do our job well done so this deal have a great future of us.
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Yup, that’s why Google is so keen on getting its hand on Twitter. My only qualm about the big T (lol) is its perceived lack of protection. internet marketing reviewss last blog post..Mike Filsaime’s Launch Tree Review
Terry@ Medical Scrubs May 28, 2009 - 9:41 pm
LOL.. Looks like I said that first.
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Twitter is a great tool and it's becoming more and more used
Cobra Health Insurance May 28, 2009 - 4:02 pm
I do not know what is happening about twitter but the whole world of webmaster is talking about this and want to capitalise the benefit of twitter before it disappear like other old options. Now you can imagine yourself that twitter become so big that Larry Page started to give a serious though about them.
Web Marketing Blog May 29, 2009 - 8:17 am
If Larry Page is giving it a serious thought, its a wake up all for all web marketers to start using Twitter effectively.
Steve@Purina Dog Food Coupons May 28, 2009 - 7:34 pm
Twitter growth is insane. Every TV newscaster has an account, my mom even has one. It's crazy. I have yet to find the usefulness of it. Maybe I'm following the wrong people or vice versa. Steve
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Believe it or not, if a thing expand than they will definitely try to grab the space of other things. internet marketing reviewss last blog post..Mike Filsaime’s Launch Tree Review
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Also, they have to do a better job at keeping spammers at bay. And we all know there’s a lot of spam on Twitter right now DotComSecrets Reviews last blog post..Mike Filsaime’s Launch Tree Review
Terry@ Medical Scrubs May 28, 2009 - 11:28 pm
Uhmmm, what's going on here? Is this a bot posting comments copying snippets from previous comments?
Web Marketing Blog May 29, 2009 - 8:19 am
Hi Terry, You made a valuable comment in this post, all of us want a slice of that comment :) ...No bots on this blog :) Web Marketing Blogs last blog post..What does Larry Page Think about Twitter ?
Terry@ Medical Scrubs May 31, 2009 - 9:16 pm
Thanks for the reassurance. :D Good to know my input's appreciated. Hehe
Brad@Performance Engines May 29, 2009 - 12:51 pm
Twitter is certainly kicking rump and not taking any names! Not that I have time to "tweet," but apparently the police in my city do. Time to re-evaluate their computer usage!!!
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Earn Money Writing June 1, 2009 - 11:51 am
this is good stuff. thanks for sharing the video. Its a little long tho.
Bubba Moe June 1, 2009 - 9:28 pm
Its a nice and informative post this video is very good and inspirational.
Steve June 1, 2009 - 10:52 pm
Yes, Twitter's business model is somewhat more 'real-time'. Twitter is better than Google in this aspect. Larry correctly points out this..!
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kitchen taps June 2, 2009 - 6:07 am
Larry pointed out correctly here about business model of twitter. About real time I have come to know from here. Thanks to Larry sir.
Jay@ Work At Home June 2, 2009 - 10:03 am
Twitter has grown so much Google will sooner or later have to inquire them in there arsenal of tools residing next to youtube. It's only the best deal at the time IMO. Jays last blog post..You Don’t Need A Google Pagerank 10 Blog To Rank #1 On Google Search Engine
Seaward June 4, 2009 - 9:21 pm
If I worked for Larry Page I would not be happy. He throws his research team under the bus for not listening to him about up-to-the-second updates and then backpeddles into a concession that those updates are not that important. He has more money than God so he can do whatever he wants but suddenly that dream job in Mountain View seems more like a nightmare
Ratenkauf June 3, 2009 - 2:02 am
I would not be surprised to see twitter results ranking high on Google all the time in the near future. The relevancy is too good for Google to ignore.
web outsourcing services June 4, 2009 - 11:03 pm
Wow. I enjoyed this whole round of discussion on twitter. Superb stuff.
Print Business Cards June 5, 2009 - 8:58 pm
Twitter and Google together? o_o I was not aware that Google has some flaws regarding real-time search. I wish they could work this out. I really like their services. :)
MP3 tunes June 6, 2009 - 5:05 am
Twitter at the moment, just a giant, and continues to grow. However, the statistics, most people do not stay there more than 3 months. Make inferences ...
Laura@st louis karate June 7, 2009 - 9:57 am
I believe also that Twitter is much better than Google in this aspect. Larry correctly demonstrated all of this points.
Ben Pei@Make Money Blogging June 7, 2009 - 10:31 pm
Well and that is why they are interested in taking over twitter.. Ben Peis last blog post..Ben Pei Visits Japan
Seaward June 10, 2009 - 9:55 pm
I think the result of using Twitter to stay connected with friends, relatives, and coworkers is that you have a sense of what folks are up to but you are not expected to respond to any updates unless you want to. This means you can step in and out of the flow of information as it suits you and it never queues up with increasing demand of your attention.
Rapid Application Development June 12, 2009 - 5:54 am
I found this twitter page while I was bored looking around on Twitter that isn't obvious with his photo or name and a friend got access, but I haven't and she says it's him she thinks because of his name but his profile isn't his name, so I was wondering if it could be him or not. It's private so I can't get in and the profile pic is a beer on a table with a glass or something.
cheap computers July 2, 2009 - 3:42 am
I think people really want to stuff real time and they (twitter) have done a really good job about.
data recovery software July 4, 2009 - 5:20 am
Very info info I am also on the twitter and i got around 450 visit from my twitter account and it's really helpful for me...
Play in texas holdem poker tournaments July 9, 2009 - 2:15 am
Real time search is extremely interesting for news and live stream / feeds.I can’t imagine that I get 17,980,093 web sites results, and i wait for 30 second to see that 5 additional sites are added, it is overloaded as it is.This is why i got addicted (but i’m not objective) to the Qwiji (www.qwiji.com) search results presentation, instead of trying to decide which result is best for my needs i simply flip through the pages. It’s FUN.Thanks for the update!!
Jacques @ Web Design August 23, 2009 - 2:54 am
Competition is good, as it forces everybody to work so much harder towards delivering products that appeal to the end users. How much resources will it take to present an effective real time offering though?
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computer repair Toronto October 12, 2009 - 6:06 pm
good video and article. Thanks
Quick House Sale October 14, 2009 - 5:30 am
I donot what he think but i think it so nice to have on Twitter!
computer repair toronto July 27, 2010 - 7:10 pm
great video, thanks for the post!!
A1directory May 6, 2010 - 7:07 am
Larry is thinking right..surely Twiiter has gone ahead on this...but Google is working on real time and hope it goes faster and faster as time passes on.
SEO Company New York July 13, 2010 - 1:20 pm
Nice info ZK, As we can see, Twitter is a fast growing network. It's getting onto top positions in visitors and usage. previously it was only G to dominate other sources. and we can see G tries to acquire the popular sites :)
Dmanes November 21, 2010 - 1:56 pm
twitter is growing rapidly, getting more visitors by the day - but google is bigger and more powerful, with the ability to engulf them if they wanted to.

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