Real-time web search

I loved this article because it provided me an information about real-time web searching which is at its infancy. Real-time web searching means searching the real time content. For example, if a great politician dies, people generate content exponentially. Providing relevant information in real time is not so easy. Here I'm listing some of the points that I liked in the article.

• Now a delay of minutes on a breaking news story is unacceptable
• Real-time search starts by determining that something important is happening in, well, real time.
• Real-time search today is in its infancy, but it's the next stage in the evolution of Internet search.
• RT Searching should address how can the explosion of instant content produced by news organizations, blogs, and social-media users be organized so that results can be provided instantly
• what is "real-time" content?: -it centers on the concept of microblogging, or instant publishing of content to the open Web from social-media services. But in practice, "real-time search is still primarily Twitter search
• two components to real-time information: the actual content of the status update or post, and the link that is being shared within that update.
• Why web search providers want to buy Twitter's 'Firehouse' ?... Why spend the money? It's simply too difficult to crawl Twitter the way traditional search engines crawl the Web. All three major search engines (Y,G,B) at this point have inked deals to have Twitter push its content directly to them, saving those companies (and Twitter) time, energy, and money.
• deadlines are dead in the real-time world.
• So if search engines are to remain relevant themselves, they'll need to make sense of this content. And unless social-media networks are able to make their content discoverable, they won't turn into the types of content-discovery engines that their public-relations people like to imagine are already here.
• Expect the importance of real-time search to only grow over the next several years. For example, Yahoo's search deal with Microsoft does not include real-time indexing and ranking efforts, as the company believes that it's too important to give away.

Interesting Links:

• Oneriot.com - Assumes that the content based on on the premise that the link being shared within the status update is more relevant than the message itself.
• Wowd.com - An example search engine of real-time web searching