While there have been many real-time search engine launches over the past few months (Scoopler, Topsy, Collecta, CrowdEye), most of them so far have fizzled (see Google Website Trends chart above). After an initial burst of curiosity, interest tends to dive. One exception, however, is OneRiot, which appears to be gaining some early traction in the real-time search race. Read more...
Tags: Apps, Google, Market Share, Microsoft, People, Search Engine, Startups, Target, Time Search, Tweets, Twitter
I like to use Twitter on my phone; it’s a convenient way to see what my tweeps are up to, and to share my own doings. I have been using Spaz on the Palm Pre since day one, but that changed today. During my daily rustling through the Pre homebrew apps (up to 132), I found Twee, a Twitter app. I loaded it up, and it has totally replaced Spaz for my twittering. Read more...
This guest post is written by Mary Hodder, the founder Dabble. Prior to Dabble, Hodder consulted for a number of startups, did research at Technorati and wrote her masters thesis at Berkeley focusing on live web search looking at blog data.
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Tags: Blog, Google, Nyt, People, Real Time, Silicon Valley, Startups, Target, Time Search, Tweets, Twitter, User Experience
Despite the overwhelming market dominance of Google and the media hype surrounding the launch of Microsoft’s snazzy new service, Bing, not everyone is convinced that Internet search has reached the end of its evolutionary path. Read more...
