searched for the word Pandora and BAM! 10 results saying Twitter is down
You probably meant "10 results saying Pandora is down," but in fact you have characterized my Twitter experience exactly.
You probably meant "10 results saying Pandora is down," but in fact you have characterized my Twitter experience exactly.
My conclusion is that Twitter solves a problem (which isn't as deep as a relevant search problem). Also, because twitter solves the problem, there's no room for the OneRiot's of the world.
ii)Google maps - tells you if there is traffic and is wrong 50% of the time. The 50% of the time I pay attention to it.
(iii) visiting Pandora's blog - I highly doubt they managed to blog about this momentary outage. It was back up in under 5 minutes.
Google is getting much faster with implementing real-time search results, but those results have to be added to the web in order to search them. And who adds these things to the web? Twitter users.