I don’t want to know what is popular or what everyone else is looking at.. I want specific information which addresses specific issues. I don’t care how long the site has been around or how many people like the site, or how fresh the content is! All of this is just irrelevant BS and is getting in the way of me finding my answer ASAP!

Everyone who ever thought about starting their own organic search engine, now is the time to do it. Google’s position is weak right now and they are leaving themselves wide open to getting stomped by some fresh thinkers out of left field.

Google has become a common verb (‘just google it’) but everyone uses google because ‘we’ told them to. ‘We’ being a small minority of computer people. ‘We’ are the people that all our friends look to when they want to know anything about computers. As soon as this minority decides that some new search engine does it better, the change will happen like wildfire, because everyone listens to us when it comes to these matters. Almost everyone I know who uses google does so because I told them too about a decade ago, and if it wasn’t me, then it was some other member of our minority who told them to.

Google now sees their numbers and they think they are all but unstoppable now, they imagine that their position is unassailable. Really all we need is a viable alternative because google’s huge number of users look to a very small subset of people for guidance. It is not an online minority which can be manipulated or relegated to obscurity online either. It is real world social circles who hang out together in real life and every such circle has a couple people who the rest look to when it comes to computers.

They will tweak that soon though I guess so i’d use this technique now but wouldn’t rely on it for future rankings.

To be honest I think Google has hurried the “real time” introduction a bit so that this feature is still quite immature.