January 23, 2009
Microblog Meta-search
The Rise (And Fall?) Of Real-Time Search by Matt McGee, Search Engine Land (Jan 22)
Want to search what people are microblogging about this very moment? Some say this is good for picking up instantly breaking news. Two new services will do it, but for how long? They are Twingly and PubSub.
Twingly searches Twitter, Jaiku (Google has shut this), Identi.ca and others.
I tried a search on Osgoode subway for stories on the shooting in Toronto on January 22 and got a respectable set of results including a twittered link to Mathew Ingram on Live Blogs - A Learning Process (Jan 23)
But Twitter is making motions to block access to its stream which will make it more difficult for the meta-search microblog engines.
Posted by Gwen at January 23, 2009 03:20 PM