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Twitter has produced a hot new trend: real-time search. There is hardly a day that goes by within the Internet industry that real-time search is not mentioned. To feed this new hunger for real-time information, real-time search engines such as Twitter Search, Scoopler, Collecta, Topsy, CrowdEye, and more are popping up all around.
Unlike the traditional search engines, these real-time search engines return the most current information from the Web in the form of blog content and comments, Twitter messages, images and video, social services, news sources, and more.
Why does our society crave this continuous stream of information? Collecta CEO Gerry Campbell told WebProNews that this need to publish and consume information actually goes back to ancient times.
“If you go back all the way to the progression of cave paintings through monks copying Bibles to Gutenberg’s press, we’ve seen an acceleration in the ability to publish information. In addition to that, we’ve seen an acceleration and a growth in people’s ability to consume information… now, we’re bringing together the ability for anybody to publish and for anybody to consume information.”
Despite all the perks of real-time search, the real-time search engines have their share of challenges to overcome. There are complaints that the results are not relevant and that they are filled with spam, among other things. While challenges are present, real-time search is still in the early stages and Google, Facebook, and users still express strong interest in the area.
Where do you think real-time search will lead us going forward? How will it impact the search industry?
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What about real time shopping comparison ?
I will definitely check the search. But I don’t think this real time search can compete Google. I used Google and I feel it is the best search engine.
This rush to further extend the gibberish market of twitter, blogs, facebook etc is purely another symptom of a herd of folks without a life that feel they are beoming a part of something if they place their own gibberish out into the world.
This is another manifestation where desperate humans give themselves some jollies by publishing their own name….their 5 minutes of quite pathetic ‘fame’.
Then the junk-marketers (and desperate politicians)see several million folks without a life and try to thrust products in front of them all. Frankly it’s quite pathetic and not anything the human species should ever be proud of.
I use the internet for business purposes and am constantly bombarded by idiotic offers to join various ‘gibberiih-clubs’ who ask such high powered questions as “what are you doing” or tell me to ‘tweet’ them. It is just so bloody pathetic.
Get a life people. Visit a friend if you have one. Go for a walk…anything else but for heck’s sake get off this silly media. Hopefully one day the owners of these sites will charge you $1 per entry…that will shut 99% up for sure.
This is just naturally evolving internet. Real time stuff??? It has been with us for years.
I think anything new is good, especially if they challenge google. Google helps the big businesses get bigger while the small businesses struggle to make it within the first 10-20 pages on their search??
Kellimom
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The website http://www.aafter.com is offering real-time results from Twitter for months now, and it also offer cookie free high privacy search, and they also do not use any Javascript based ad [like absence].
I am still exploring the use of real time search engine but meanwhile i am trying to come up with a site which offers real time shopping experience.
http://www.xyshop.co.uk
It’s not 100% real time yet but i am getting merchants regularly who are willing to participate in making it realtime. Need your ideas about real time shopping search.
I’m interested in seeing how this effects regular search. And, to be honest we are trying to figure out how to use real time search to inform and benefit our visitors and clients in away that’s actually useful to them.
Dave Brandley
Trust Guard
I think any competition to Google, big or small, can only big a good thing in terms of pushing innovation, tackling issues such as spam and ultimately benefitting the end-user.
Zak, http://www.moreover.com/
How many realtime search engines do we need btw? If I only need one Google, I probably only need one real-time search engine (probably also Google btw).
Can be useful for certain marketing needs on a niche.
I typically use Twitter and other social sites to help market my safety and security web site. I think real-time search is great for world/national events as well as for businesses to keep their customers informed about sales, service alerts and other issues. I think it’s only going to get more sophisticated as time goes on.
This is another tool for webmasters to master.
You may also like to look at the search engine from eZdia. It provides good result for the knowledge and the associated expert. It is cool if you want to find someone expert in a particular field
The timing couldn’t be better for this with the inception of Google’s Wave real time search is the next generation of search engine marketing and advertising.
i think that real time search while useful in some circumstances is seriously overated unless your blogging etc about world/national events in real time.