• It’s like we’re back to Infos­eek in 1997. If you want to rank #1, don’t worry about quality content, relevance or popular­ity, just be the last person to Tweet about a topic and you’ll come out on top (at least, for a few seconds).
• SEOmoz CEO Rand Fishkin • In a post discussing (among other things) the sudden desire by Google (and Bing!) to be on top of the real-time search game. It’s all part of a list of his predic­tions for 2010. He’s not alone – appar­ently a lot of SEO experts are with him. He calls it the worst imple­men­ta­tion of a new product he’s seen from Google so far, and suggests that it won’t last in its current form more than a couple of weeks. He’s proba­bly nervous that it’s gonna cost him money because his entire business model is based on a search engine optimiza­tion model Google just broke. source

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