Google beta testing a real-time indexing API
Can Google find content even faster than it does now? Google thinks so, and they are beta testing a real-time indexing API for that reason.
Topic: Real-time web
Google+ Search Goes Real Time & Gains Hashtag Support
Google has announced that its still relatively new Google+ Search feature now will update its results in real time plus has new support for hashtags. Alerts For New Results When doing a search, if there are new results that have happened after you initially did your search, you’ll see a message alerting you to the […]
An Illustrated Guide To Searching For Shared, Tweeted & “Realtime” Images
Looking for images that are being shared and posted in realtime? That image search space has gotten more competitive, as Nachofoto reenters the field. Below, what it offers, along with general realtime image searching tips using other services like Topsy, Google Realtime Search and Twitter itself. I’ve used realtime search tools often, in order to […]
Real-Time Search Engine Collecta Hits Pause
Depending on your viewpoint, Collecta has either shut down or hit the pause button while the company “takes a step back” and retools it’s approach. I just got off the phone with Collecta CEO Gerry Campbell who was upbeat about his company’s prospects and next steps. He was candid, however, that the market he and […]
SMX East 2010 Slide Video: The Real Time & Social Search Landscape
The Real Time & Social Search Landscape Presentations from SMX East, October 2010 Over the past year, real time and social search results have been integrated into the major search engines in a variety of ways. This session provides an overview of the current landscape and the opportunities these new products offer to search marketers. […]
Official: Google Adding More & Fresher Tweets To Social Search
Google Social Search — the service that adds content from your social circle to a search results page — appears to be getting an increase in tweets. And fresher tweets, at that. Social Search relies on what Google knows about your friends and connections (via your Google profile, Google Reader account, etc.) and sometimes shows […]
Twitter Places: How It Might Challenge Google’s Local Dominance
One of the big, unanswered questions in the local search space is, Who’s going to do the best job of marrying location with real-time context. Twitter is hardly the first to try, but it may have the best chance to succeed. On Monday, the company announced Twitter Places, a new feature that’s being rolled out […]
Live Blogging SXSW: Social Search, A Little Help From My Friends
It’s live blogging time again from SXSW. Today, the Social Search: A Little Help From My Friends panel gets underway.
Live Blogging SXSW: Can The Real Time Web Be Realized?
I’m here at SXSW waiting for the Can the Real-Time Web Be Realized? panel to begin. I’ll be liveblogging what happens, so stay tuned. Search engines have certainly jumped to add in ways to find real-time content. This panel features reps from three of them talking: Google, Microsoft and Collecta. Plus, you’ve got real-time guru […]
Yahoo To Broadly Integrate Twitter Across Properties
Earlier this evening Yahoo announced that it had deepened its relationship with Twitter and would be integrating Twitter’s feeds and content across its network: The partnership integrates Twitter’s real-time social experiences with Yahoo!’s global network of nearly 600M people. Together with the recently announced Facebook integration, this relationship is a key part of advancing Yahoo!’s […]
Collecta Widget Brings Real-Time Search Results To Any Site
Collecta has announced the availability of a new widget that allows any webmaster/blogger to show real-time search results on a web page. The widget builder is available now at widget.collecta.com, and includes several customization options including widget title, header background image, and even use of an external CSS file. It appears that the size of […]
OneRiot Launches RiotWise Ad Network For Real-Time Search
OneRiot has announced the full rollout of RiotWise, a service that it calls “the first ad network for the realtime web.” Today’s launch follows a pilot phase that the company says was successful in allowing developers to monetize mobile apps, desktop clients, social search engines, and similar applications. Partners during the pilot phase included Digsby […]
Yahoo Adds Twitter To Search Results
Just a few weeks after adding Twitter to its news shortcuts, Yahoo has announced that it’s adding Twitter to its main search results, too. That’s a search for “climate gate” with tweets showing at the bottom of the search results page. Yahoo says this isn’t a replacement for the news shortcut tweets, and that this […]
Yahoo Brings ‘Real Time’ Updates To News Shortcut
Yahoo has enhanced its News shortcut with real-time feeds and updates. The idea is to make the News Shortcut more current and more social with Twitter content in the form of videos, photos and tweets. The new shortcut has a horizontal tabbed interface that offers access to each category of information (see screens below). According […]
Why I’m NOT Drinking The “Real-time Local Search” Kool-Aid
I’m hearing more and more about “Real-Time Local Search” – that phrase is popping up everywhere; but I’m just not buying the hype that positions it as some amazing new essence that businesses and consumers must embrace… sorry. I acknowledge that it’s useful to have a label to refer to this concept, but is it […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 22, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Can Search Marketing Generate Emails To Local Businesses? Local businesses typically use search marketing to achieve two main objectives: getting customer calls and walk-ins. They do this by publishing their address […]
Google & Twitter Have A Deal, Too
Following hot on the heels of the Bing / Twitter partnership announced earlier today, Google has now also announced that it, too, has struck a deal with Twitter to include real-time tweets in Google’s search results. “We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, […]
Live Blog: Qi Lu Speaking At Web 2.0
Microsoft’s Qi Lu announced two new partnerships today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Here’s a transcript of his chat with Tim O’Reilly. Qi Lu I was at Yahoo for 10 years, and I always told Jerry, after 10 years I’m going to try something new. I went to Microsoft because I wanted […]
Take That, Twitter: Google Hot Trends Integrated Into Google Search
Twitter and real time search continues to attract buzz, and Google’s reacting by positioning its “Hot Trends” information in a place where more people will see it, within Google’s regular search results. Starting around 3:45 Pacific Time today, those searching on topics that are spiking or “hot” in popularity should see a new Hot Trends […]
Done Deal: Facebook Buys FriendFeed
Previously rejected by Twitter, Facebook has bought FriendFeed, instead. The official release is on Facebook, and FriendFeed’s Bret Taylor has posted about it on the FriendFeed blog. Though Facebook has long been competing with MySpace for social networking supremacy, it’s been eclipsed in some ways by the immediacy of Twitter and, to a lesser degree, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 9, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Microsoft Lets You Bing Inside Your Hotmail Microsoft has announced the addition of Bing searches to its Hotmail email service. It works via Hotmail’s quick add feature and lets users search […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 6, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Image Search Makes SafeSearch Toggle Switch Quicker Google Image Search has made it a bit easier to toggle between the three levels of SafeSearch. SafeSearch is the adult image filter […]
Twitter’s Real Time Spam Problem
And so real-time search begets real-time spam. We knew this would happen, but it’s annoying and becoming a growing problem. Question is, will Twitter do anything about it, beginning with removing its “Trends” feature?I got an up close & personal look at how bad Twitter “trend spam” has become when this week, our SMX Advanced […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 14, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Twitter Embraces Its Inner Search Engine
Twitter is a search engine after all — or make that a “discovery engine.” The folks at Twitter are saying that the experiment with integrating a search box into Twitter pages will rolled out with some interesting twists and new dimensions. It won’t be at the top of the page, but rather on the sidebar: […]
Will Google Succumb To “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
John Borthwick, a former AOL/TW executive, writes a piece for Silicion Alley Insider on the phenomenon now known as “The Innovator’s Dilemma” and how it blindsided AOL — despite the fact that the company thought it was prepared for it. In his post, Borthwick describes an AOL HR retreat several years ago: On the second […]
Me.dium Changes Name To OneRiot, Launches Social Search Engine
OneRiot, the company formerly known as Me.dium, has launched OneRiot.com, a social search engine that crawls and indexes the pages viewed by OneRiot toolbar users. The idea behind OneRiot is to measure the “pulse” of the web by offering search results ranked by what searchers are actually viewing at the moment, rather than by more […]