Search on the NOW web with Twitter

"...Twitter Search changes everything. Imagine you are in line waiting for coffee and you hear people chattering about a plane landing on the Hudson. You go back to your desk and search Google for plane on the Hudson — today — weeks after the event, Google is replete with results — but the DAY of the incident there was nothing on the topic to be found on Google. Yet at http://search.twitter.com the conversations are right there in front of you. The same holds for any topical issues — lipstick on pig? — for real time questions, real time branding analysis, tracking a new product launch — on pretty much any subject if you want to know whats happening now, search.twitter.com will come up with a superior result set."

"Snagged this article "Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction? (GOOG)", from Silicon Alley Insider by John Borthwick".

Five or six years ago I heard the same ideas about how technorati was going to change search. That pretty much fizzeled out. I can't see twitter doing much either, especially against google.