In my normal ranting fashion, I have gone off on passionate shpheels about how Twitter is much more than what people see it at face value. For the last three weeks I have been sounding the alarm that Twitter is a pre-cursor to the coming age of Internet wisdom and search. Internet Search is reaching a major point of seismic shifting that will change the Internet and how people use it.

I’ve been blabbing how search.twitter.com is a glimpse into the future of search because of it’s real-time capabilities. Well wouldn’t you know by golly someone has gone and done it. His name is Mark Carey and he has crafted a GreaseMonkey script that integrates Twitter and Google into one beautiful collage of real-time and authoritative ranked results. Mark only recently became a member of UserScripts.org on February 27th, 2009. This shows that Mark was truly inspired by Twitter and Google and has made his scripting debut on the website with this diddy: Twitter Search Results on Google.

My friend Mark Murnahan over at Twitter posted this Tweet:
http://twitter.com/murnahan/status/1273062100
RT @murnahan: Does Real-Time Search Make Twitter a Google Killer? http://bit.ly/uzEG

And I replied with this one:
http://twitter.com/webaddict/status/1273068001
RT @murnahan: Does Real-Time Search Make Twitter a Google Killer? http://bit.ly/uzEG [no way, it just shows the future of a hybrid Google]

Just about an hour after that… this script was released… or at least that’s when I started seeing it talked about in the Twitterstream.

Now before you make the jump and try installing this script… let me show you a few things that will hopefully open your eyes to the birth of the Real-Time Google Hybrid / Twitter Search.

Some examples to get your neurons firing and your creativity juicing are as follows:

1. I was talking with a cool new Twitter buddy of mine @elidet and she mentioned the California Unemployment Rate as being 7.1%. Being the absolute news junky, social media dork I am, I had to correct her, it had just been updated to 10.1% less than 24 hours before her mention. So let’s take a look shall we? (Sidenote: Please bare with me, I use Photoshop like a kindergardner!)

I’ve done my best to make it real simple here, LOL. GREEN is GOOD and RED is BAD. Okay, I’m stretching it a bit but you get the point. What we’re looking at is my Google search after I’ve installed this simple yet amazing little GreaseMonkey Script. On the top you see the Real-Time Twitter results and below that you see the authoritative ranked results by Google. Now don’t get me wrong, Google has changed ALL of our lives. But what you will notice is that Google results are providing outdated California unemployment numbers at: 8.7% and 7.7% accordingly.

What does Twitter have to say? Well, really it’s not Twitter at all, it’s YOU, yes YOU are telling us what the current unemployment rate is in California, ehem, Social Media anyone? Or how about Social Intelligence? Or Social News (Digg, Mixx, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Propeller, etc.). Okay, so wonderful, we get the most current number for a statistic we all don’t want to hear (unemployment). Now let’s look at another one. (Sidenote: That link to Digg back there is to where my old account used to be until Digg banned me for using a GREASEMONKEY script to add a diggit link under all posts in Friend Submissions, don’t get me started!)

Now let’s sit over here in this corner for a second and laugh like little school kids. HAHAHAHA! ROFL! LOL! If this results page above doesn’t just crack you up then, well, you’re probably just normal unlike me. However, let’s break this down here. We searched for “real-time search” on Google with the GreaseMonkey Real-Time Google Hybrid / Twitter Search made by Mark.

What do we find? Well, Twitter gives us Real-Time results talking about this crazy GreaseMonkey Script that allows you to have, “GOOGLE + TWITTER search.” Now if we look below to our trusty old authoritative Google results we’ll see that we can OBSERVE Real-Time search (not participate or use it) and the next result is DogPile Search. I have to admit, DogPile’s Search Spy is nifty in a wonderfully voyeuristic type of way (…wait isn’t that what Twitter is too?). Anywho, skipping on down to the next result we have the frisky little site that created all this mess with their silly new Real-Time Human Thought powered search engine. HERE is where it gets comical… the next result? “Twitter *kills* Google in real-time search (Scripting News).”

Obviously that 4th organic result proves that Google doesn’t censor their results to pound away their competitors. So there you have it, two interesting examples of how the “Real-Time Google Hybrid / Twitter Search” is going to change your life and searching habits.

Now before I ramble on forever, I want to send you in the right direction to get this thing installed and be on your way so you can bring up real-time results and be filling your brain full of lots of useless garbage. Directly from the blog post that released this plugin which can be found here, is this:

Get realtime Twitter results on your Google searches:

1. If you don’t already have it, install the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox.
2. Click the “Install” button on the “Twitter Search Results on Google” page on userscripts.org.

Now if you’re a little green, a little new or as some call the new netizens on this planet, a n00b. Then take a deep breathe and realize this is a piece of cake. If you’re new, I guarantee you don’t have Greasemonkey installed. Click the link in #1 and install it FIRST. Then skip on to #2 and go to that page…look up to the far right and click INSTALL. Now, go to Google and get your Real-Time Google Hybrid / Twitter Search.

Here is my plea to @google, PLEASE don’t buy Twitter! Let them fester around, innovate and create new products with their companies “uncorporate” way of thinking. Then, when Twitter runs out of money because the economy is in the tank, step in, buy them and we’re off to the races.

Okay, I think this post will do. I hope this inspired you to use this wonderful new plugin and to open your eyes up to a new empowering way of search the InterTUBES. You can find me on Twitter @webaddict or you can find me on other social networks at the Social Links I mentioned above.

Peace, Love and Chicken Grease,
- webaddict

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