Twitter - a Google Killer. Really?

Question is, can Twitter be a real challenge to Google?

Well, lets just say that it depends largely on what you perceive as "Google's capability" of taking a challenge. And what Google takes as a challenge in reality.

At the moment many are debating whether Twitter search can kill Google search or not. Before we jump to any conclusions let's take a brief look at the facts...

Drawbacks of using Twitter Search:
While Twitter search is popular and gives you ample of opportunity to search real-time chat topics, there are still many out there who don't know how to use it. Better yet, at the moment twitter search is much easier to manipulate with spam.

What Google Search offers:
Quality, spam free search results that offer you a blend of web results along with news, press results, blog results and videos.

Having said that, lets move on to What Else Twitter is Offering:
Twitter is more or less like an online SMS service, keeping you connected to millions and allowing you to follow updates and chat online. This makes Twitter all the more addictive. Also, only recently it was discovered that in order to improve its search Twitter is now focusing on adding a Q&A section soon. A very smart move indeed, as Q&A sites have quite an appeal.

To Cut the Long Story Short:
A growing trend shows that while Google gives more authentic results than Twitter, people now prefer to log on to Twitter search long before they search Google for anything.

Moral of the Story:
It didn't take Twitter too long to become a verb and with so many positive changes being made in Twitter, it won't be long before it hits big. Ok fine, so may be it can't do better in search (yet... or as searchenginewatch reports) than Google and its possibly not the Google Killer most of us are rooting for but it's growing fast and admit it or not... people are beginning to prefer Twitter over Google now. So that makes Twitter dangerous for Google on so many levels.

Possible Condescending Ideas of Google:
I bet Google can't wait to get it's hands on Twitter (they just always have to own anything that threatens their popularity!). Who knows, perhaps at this very moment Google is cooking up some devious plan to acquire twitter altogether. Argh! I just hate Google take-overs! :8