Twitter to be the new Google?

clipped from www.searchenginejournal.com it stares at you upfront - the Twitter Search Box. As Loren commented to me via IM - “looks like a search engine to me…“ The redesign was made more for first time visitors to the Twitter home page and who are not yet using Twitter. Putting the Twitter search box right up front would give these visitors a first taste of how great Twitter is as a discovery engine and not just a social media tool for communicating with Twitter members. It’s a good strategy for Twitter which defines what it could do aside from being a micro-blogging service. And this could also be the start of biggger, bolder things to come for Twitter.

"it stares at you upfront - the Twitter Search Box."

The staring twitter search box. Such fear and dread lurks behind this simple description.