Thursday, May 14, 2009

Real-Time Search Picking up Steam

Twitter announced last week that it would expand search beyond its own site, not only indexing search terms on its own site but the pages tweets link to as well.

This would transform Twitter into a real-time internet search engine based upon what users are twittering about. Very cool.

Looks like Twitter has some competition on that front, though. Two startups, OneRiot and TweetMeme have already begun searching linked pages on Twitter and indexing text, videos, and images.

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