Now that Cuil may not be the next Google, speculations arise on what will be the ultimate challenger of the global search machine: it might be Twitter. The techblog Techmeme has an interesting article about it this week and concludes: I have seen the threat.  It is Twitter.
Twitter and Twitter Search might indeed be the David against Goliath Google. Twitter is a niche used generated search engine, powered by humans, who decide which information is relevant; it's not the number of links that count on a website or blog, but the number of actual discussions taking place between humans, about a certain subject or object. In the Netherlands, if you want to know something about a certain topic, you can look at the actual Twitter experts, via the newly created Twitter Guides per topic. So you can be very precise in your request for information.

Twitter is very good in 'what's happening now' (their tagline). With many news items, like the US plane that landed in the Hudson river and the conflict in the Gaza, Twitter was a better news source than Google.  As Techmeme reports, there are some things Twitter is just flat out better at for getting information than Google.  Via Twitter Search, people are researching companies, products and services for real customer feedback, breaking news and live events/conference updates.  It is not a total threat but Twitter is so superior in these areas that people will indeed make the effort to search somewhere new to get the information.
Google would love to be also the new search engine for what's happening now. Anyway lots of discussions about a company, Twitter, that has not made money yet but has already been subject to an acquisition bid.

What's your opinion about this?