Re: Search 101: How to Find the Lost Web

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote at 14:11 this Tuesday (GMT):
[snip]

FOR ACCURATE INFO, TWITTER SEARCH IS NOW MORE USEFUL THAN GOOGLE
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It's almost incomprehensible that the worldbeating sophistication of
Google Search could regress so far as to allow a micro-blogging site
to provide more relevant information, but that's where we are. And
one of the main reasons Twitter Search has become more popular than
Google with many people who research for a living, is the platform's
rigid protection of chronological integrity.
>
There are three components to this...
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* All Tweets are dated and uneditable.
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* Twitter Search allows us to define a date range.
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* One of the best ways to find a relevant search result is to filter
  out spam, and spam tends to come in waves, which are based on
  trends and current affairs. In other words, a reliable date filter
  can serve as a reliable spam filter.

[snip]

Twitter has its own problems, but I'll keep that in mind. Does anyone
know if its possible to search on Twitter without an account?

From: <https://backlit.neocities.org/how-to-find-the-lost-web>

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