Yahoo Confirms Real-Time Search Test
Nov 3, 2009 at 6:54pm ET by Matt McGee
Yahoo has confirmed the recent rumors that it will test a real-time search feature in its search results.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo will run a test "in the coming days" with OneRiot, a real-time search engine that focuses on links and content from Twitter and other social media sources. PaidContent reports that Yahoo will also be running real-time search tests with other players, too. (See Danny Sullivan's What Is Real Time Search? Definitions & Players for more background on possible partners.)
Yahoo will conduct its real-time search testing on a limited set of qu [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Real Time Search, Yahoo: Search
How Will Twitter Integration Into Google, Bing Affect The Tweecosystem?
Oct 9, 2009 at 4:24pm ET by Greg Sterling
AllThingsD reported yesterday that Twitter was in independent discussions (which have happened before) with both Google and Microsoft "in which the companies would license a full feed from the microblogging service that could then be integrated into the results of their competing search engines." Reuters also picked up the story.
Bing and Google have both indicated that "real-time search" is on the agenda and this would quickly accelarate those efforts. Bing previously added "Twitter Smart Answers." There are also third party tools to add Twitter results to both Google and Bing. And as you [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Real Time Search
CrowdEye Twitter Search Upgrades With Google-Like Features
Sep 3, 2009 at 9:00am ET by Matt McGee
CrowdEye, one of the new Twitter-based real-time search engines that has launched this year, has just upgraded its service with several new features that will remind you of ... Google? It's true. The service now includes a PageRank-like measurement system, a customizable home page (sorta like iGoogle), and the ability to perform site: searches like you would on Google. Here's a look at the new features announced today:
Personalized Home Page
CrowdEye users can now customize their home page with content about their favorite sites. I could, for example, set up my home page to show tweets a [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Real Time Search, Top News
Idearc Brings True Local Search To Twitter
Sep 2, 2009 at 10:02am ET by Greg Sterling
A version of local search has existed on Twitter for some time: asking your followers for local recommendations about places to stay, things to do and so on. One can also use Twitter search itself, though it's very hit and miss in terms of the quality of results. And there are also the third party search engines that use the Twitter API. Yet those typically produce the same uneven results.
But in what is a first (to my knowledge) Idearc's Superpages has brought true local search to Twitter through Twitter.com/sp411. Twitter users can now conduct searches of the Superpages database and get r [...]
Filed in: Search Engines: Maps & Local Search Engines, Search Engines: Mobile Search Engines, Search Engines: Real Time Search, Search Engines: Word Of Mouth & Buzz Search Engines, Top News, Twitter
Surchur: Beyond Real-Time Search To Real-Time Discovery
Sep 1, 2009 at 7:24am ET by Matt McGee
Surchur has been around for more than a year, but its recent facelift aims to take real-time search toward a new idea: real-time discovery.
It may sound like splitting hairs to some, but the point is valid: Real-time search isn't of much value if you don't know what to type into the search box. This is why Twitter's new home page has links to a couple dozen trending topics. It's why the new delicious.com home page has a tab showing the hottest bookmarks. It's why Collecta shows what's "hot now" on its home page, and why OneRiot does, too.
But Surchur is going a lot further with its new h [...]
Filed in: Features: Analysis, Search Engines: Real Time Search
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