Google CEO: Twitter A 'Poor Man's Email System'
Tue, Mar 3rd, 2009 |
Real-time microblogging and messaging services like Twitter could potentially become a threat to Google -- whose search index doesn't keep up with conversations as quickly as Twitter's. So what does Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt think about Twitter?
"Speaking as a computer scientist, I view all of these as sort of poor man's email systems," he said this afternoon at Morgan Stanley's technology conference. (Live notes here.) What's he talking about?
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