At the end of 2009 Google launched real time search results to show Google users updates as they were happening around the web. This pretty much meant crawling Twitter and displaying the tweets from trending topics. As you can see in the screenshot pictured here the real time search results are all from twitter.com. If [...]
Posts Tagged ‘real-time search’
Searchers are blind to Real Time Search
16 March 2010 | Posted by Adrian Jennings | Search, Social MediaTags: Google, real-time search, twitter
Google’s Pagerank adapted to prioritise tweeters
13 January 2010 | Posted by Henry Elliss | Head of Social Media | Search, Social MediaTags: Google, pagerank, ranking, real-time search, tweets, twitter
Ever since Google began to include real-time results in the SERPs, from sites like Twitter and other blogs, speculation has been rife as to how they prioritise which tweets appear and which don’t. Whilst a search on a popular ‘hot topic’ can often reveal what seems like a fast stream of tweets, a corresponding search [...]
Is real-time the future of the web?
9 October 2009 | Posted by Craig Dennis | Junior Designer | TechnologyTags: GNIP, real-time search, real-time web, SUP, twitter, XMPP
There has been a lot of talk about the real-time web and how it is ‘the future’ but what exactly is the real-time web and why should we care?
Put simply, the real-time web is instant. You do something and the system you are interacting with knows what you have done, does what it does and [...]
FriendFeed, Search and Lite – Facebook is having a busy week
12 August 2009 | Posted by Henry Elliss | Head of Social Media | Social MediaTags: facebook, Facebook Lite, FriendFeed, real-time search, twitter
I don’t know whether it’s the same in your line of work, but personally, I usually find when getting back from holiday that all the big stories of the year seem to have broken while you were lounging by the pool. Luckily for me, I seem to have got back from my two-week-break just in [...]
