Realtime search for the most part is still mostly about searching Twitter. So it is probably a good idea for fledgling realtime search engines to make it easy to share specific Tweets found in the search results back on Twitter. Since most of the results are Tweets, and search is just another form of navigation and discovery when it comes to the realtime stream, you want to be able to retweet directly from your search results.
OneRiot already does this, and today Collecta is adding a similar sharing feature. Although, Collecta also lets you share any result on Facebook, Mixx, Reddit, Delicious, and Stumbleupon as well (but, oddly, not on Digg). Collecta launched last June.
In addition to sharing individual results, you can also share the entire search by clicking on “Share this search” under the search term in the left-hand column to pass the link around for your specific query. For instance, here is what people are saying right now about the death of Edward Kennedy.
You normally wouldn’t think about sharing regular search results other than as a link, but realtime results operate under a different dynamic. Collecta’s results also now include a little avatar in front of each one, giving it more of a social feel, and making it more familiar to Twitter users. Is this search or a new way to navigate the stream?
With realtime search, you are mining the conversations around the Web, tapping into the collective consciousness. So each result should be a jumping off point to start a new conversation.
Just wondering why you have not talked about Bonush.com, its a live search engine for the web, they are indexing you guys live!
and other sites, sure you have to turn twitter off but it is a great service.
Hi have you guys heard off Bonush? Its new about a week old, and they do web searches LIVE real time.
I found out that they had a sandbox version look a lot better its sandbox.bonush.com
Can I recommend you take a look at Bonush we designed it less then a week ago, and already indexing the world wide web LIVE.
We are about to support Live Radio and already have RSS support and if sites want to be truly live they can add a small plugin or make one using our API.
We just also had a meeting with one VC company that maybe interested in funding the project.
Oh and yeah we are an Australian and German company so to say, with me living in Australia and our Head of Infrastructure and development in Germany
Pitch your company elsewhere, dude! Not here.
Pete,
Any minute now, the “locator douche” will be here to tell you why his product is revolutionary as well. Stand by.
It does work great but still real time searches are yet to become more user friendly.
Collecta looks promising to me but its layout does raise some concerns and its difficult to navigate in the page.
Real time search need to be incorporated WITHIN the context of general searches in order for it to be meangingful.
The problem with real time is context, context, context.
This is the way Google will do it and it is the way Yauba does it.
Otherwise I can just go in twitter and use their search.
I totally agree, it’ll have more value. Give it a bit more structure. As a stand alone product, its just too balky.
True, the UI is a bit difficult to use. I see all these real-time search engines to be more biased towards the twitter population. It’ll be totally swamped with either Twitter news or technology news. Very rarely, I find other interesting pages. However, it’s quite interesting to see what these Twitter people are doing on other verticals like movies, music etc. At least I find these to be interesting, not the webpages. To find what’s hot among people, check out http://www.boilingpage.com and their verticals at http://movies.boilingpage.com, http://music.boilingpage.com, http://books.boilingpage.com, etc
Collectin in real time is great like google is doing with Wordpress Blogs. Great tool.
Good Luck in your fight with Google and twitter!
Good stuff.
a few months ago i setup an experiment called “Recent Search”. it is simply a twitter stream getting fed recent twitter searches that users have shared.
http://twitter....om/recentsearch
i’ve been interested in “Shared Search” for a while and at work we share search results a lot, especially when testing SEO, tracking campaign keywords etc etc.
but we’ve also shared search results on research topics when one of us has found a quality keyword combination that returned very relavent results.
the other thing that sparked me to setup this twitter stream was the simple feature that Summize.com had and now search.twitter.com has – “Twitter these results”. that’s socializing search results and it’s a great idea.
so i tried for a week or two to get a new hashtag going – #recentsearch – or i also was considering using #sharedsearch or #sharesearch. these would have been more helpful than relying on the ironic feed used to populate @recentsearch, which is a search feed for the term “searched twitter for”
@recentsearch was running on its own using a 3rd party service to inject the feed into twitter at certain time intervals etc. and the account has since been running without my involvement. I used to hop in a remind followers that it was an automated account – because people (and other bots?) were replying to tweets. a strange thing when i think about it.
but i’m still subscribed to @recentsearch and often find it more interesting than trending topics since those are often included in the stream to but you get some longtail stuff and comical stuff too
anyway, thought it might be of interest.
I have tested collecta, it is too slow. It must think of speed to get going.
These companies are fighting over something that’s completely useless.
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Erick, I just added a ‘Share This’ button to my web site… Would you like to cover it?
What do you think of this?
another company adding share tools
I think what they’re trying to do here is pretty smart. I doubt they’re trying to be a destination site so the UI probably not a big factor (that said I found the UI pretty intuitive – and features like filter options, automatic saved searches, etc. a nice touch).
Seems like they’ve made some good progress since launching, be interesting to see if the shared search feature gets traction.
Good stuff.needles to say that arabic sites needs a step.
twitter is not real-time search…it is real-time search of what people on twitter have posted…so stop calling it ‘real-time search’