Search.Twitter.Awesome.Entertaining

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Twitter is so crazy right now. The growth seems to be spurred on by so many different types of twitter'ers. The business guy, the "I say Funny Stuff" guy, the "i want to be like Brittany Spears" girl, the blogger, the "link me up" junkies, and so on.

I love Twitter for it's ability to build your personal brand. I'm into a bunch of stuff. I'm a freelance photographer on the side, and have been building that business via word of mouth and an online presence for two years. I work for an ad agency and use Twitter to search for chatter about the brands I work on and their competitors...there are just so many uses.

Twitter Search is not only helpful...it's just plain old fun...take the above image for example; top searches include "SXSW", "Watchmen" and "Chuck Norris"!!! How are there enough people talking about Chuck Norris to drive him to a top trend on the site?

Simple - he's Chuck Norris!

Cool site to check out; Searchme.com

Everyone you have to check out searchme.com they are building out visual search and its really cool. Let us know if you think this would be cool to add to Search3? Its very 'applesesque' not sure if that even a word or if i created a word today but its similar to what Apple does with their new Safari browser and with the iPhone album covers.

Habits, can you change them, should you change them?

So I have a habit, I use Google to search for stuff. Lots of things and I, like 70% of people don't even realize I am doing it. I use Google like I use my email client or my telephone, its a product feature in my browser rather than a company. Essentially its a crazy habit that I am not sure I can break. So a few months ago I tried going 30 days without using Google. 30 DAYS!!! I dare you to just try 2 days without using Google! During this time I used a bunch of search engines and was surprised at how good they all where at finding what i was looking for.
Yet at the end of the 30 days like a CRACK addict I returned to using Google, it was a habit I could not break. It was during this time I realized that you can't beat Google you need to join with them and hence the reason search3 will be Google + any other two engines you choose. The jury is still out on whether I can change my habit completely but why wouldn't you choose Google + two vs. Google by themselves?
Please let us know your reasons below