The Race For Real-Time Search Results
Online search in recent months has become one of the most fascinating and exciting sectors of the Internet. The Semantic Web, Web 3.0, Wolfram Alpha, Google's Rich Snippets...a lot's happening.
What may be attracting the most buzz at the moment, though, is "real-time" search. Twitter was the first to demonstrate the user interest in (if not the business model for) getting search results of the very latest information posted online.
But there are others working on real-time search offerings. InternetNews.com's David Needle profiles several vendors, including Collecta, a real-time search service that launched late last week and drew a lot of coverage. According to Collecta's home page, the site provides real-time searches of news sites, popular blogs, social media and Flickr.
Then there's OneRiot, which focuses on "social networks, book-marking sites and its own online panel of volunteer contributors." Unlike Collecta, whose home page features a search box and a bit of explanatory language, OneRiot also has the latest information posted online. I was greeted on its home page a few minutes ago with news (from Twitter posters) that additional pictures from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland would be coming soon and that Chris Brown has pleaded guilty to one count of felony assault on his girlfriend Rihanna.
Meanwhile, VentureBeat published an article listing what it calls the 11 contenders vying for supremacy (or at least an upper slot) in the real-time search market. It includes the three mentioned above and eight others, many of which focus exclusively on searching Twitter content.
Which, in a way, leads back to Google. The search giant has been rumored to be interested in either buying Twitter or striking a deal with the microblogging service to access its content.
It'll be fascinating to see how the sector shakes out and what ideas will win out with users. I'm hoping to find time to try out all of the real-time search vendors in the articles I've linked to. If I do, I'll post my impressions here.
What may be attracting the most buzz at the moment, though, is "real-time" search. Twitter was the first to demonstrate the user interest in (if not the business model for) getting search results of the very latest information posted online.
But there are others working on real-time search offerings. InternetNews.com's David Needle profiles several vendors, including Collecta, a real-time search service that launched late last week and drew a lot of coverage. According to Collecta's home page, the site provides real-time searches of news sites, popular blogs, social media and Flickr.
Then there's OneRiot, which focuses on "social networks, book-marking sites and its own online panel of volunteer contributors." Unlike Collecta, whose home page features a search box and a bit of explanatory language, OneRiot also has the latest information posted online. I was greeted on its home page a few minutes ago with news (from Twitter posters) that additional pictures from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland would be coming soon and that Chris Brown has pleaded guilty to one count of felony assault on his girlfriend Rihanna.
Meanwhile, VentureBeat published an article listing what it calls the 11 contenders vying for supremacy (or at least an upper slot) in the real-time search market. It includes the three mentioned above and eight others, many of which focus exclusively on searching Twitter content.
Which, in a way, leads back to Google. The search giant has been rumored to be interested in either buying Twitter or striking a deal with the microblogging service to access its content.
It'll be fascinating to see how the sector shakes out and what ideas will win out with users. I'm hoping to find time to try out all of the real-time search vendors in the articles I've linked to. If I do, I'll post my impressions here.
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