On Growing Demand for Real Time Search Engines, by Sivarajan, SEO Services Group (Jul 1)
Real time search gets more popular by the minute. Twitter is only part of the torrent. There are also blog postings and a flood of photos from cell phones.
Why care? "Real-time searches are more valuable because it lets you know what’s happening right now on any given topic. Companies use it to handle customer services. News junkies use it to follow political events."
What to use? Probably not Google - or not yet. But there are others that collect and analyze: Collecta, Crowdeye, Topsy, Scoopler.
Also mentioned - OneRiot , a bookmarking site for saving tweets. This can be useful for finding the latest on "climate change' as one example. However, don't count on the "trending topics" to be much more than noise from the US.
Postscript: Some indication that Google is indexing feeds from Twitter. Google has a realtime feed of Twitter, by Johann Burkard (July 4)
Posted by Gwen at July 10, 2009 02:01 PM