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I didn’t expect this! Twitter is the fastest-growing search mechanism on the web. I hesitate to call twitter a “search engine” (contrary to my headline) because it does so much more and wasn’t originated to be used as a search mechanism first and all other things a distant second (like most traditional search engines, like google, yahoo, and bing).

Not only is twitter the fastest-growing, it is now 2nd only to the almighty google in terms of number of searches performed in a month. Get this:

This is up 33% from April, where at Twitter’s Chirp conference Stone said Twitter was serving 600 million search queries per day. This roughly equates to 24 billion searches per month which is more than Bing (4.1) and Yahoo (9.4) combined.

Twitter is a formidable player now not only in social media but in news and search. How about that?

Socialnomics – Social Media Blog

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