Web 2.0: Testing out Bing’s Twitter-juiced search
Bing’s Twitter search just went live this morning. Here’s a side-by-side comparison against some of the more prominent start-ups in the real-time space.
A few notes – Bing’s results seem about two to six minutes behind other search engines. Like Tweetmeme and OneRiot, they put a bit more emphasis on the content being shared rather than the tweets themselves.
1) Trending Topics — Most major Twitter search engines incorporate “trending topics,” showing the top ten new things people… Continue Reading
A busy week for real-time search — here’s a list to keep tabs
After scarcely a peep for much of the summer, a handful of the real-time search startups we profiled earlier this year have ramped up their offerings this week. They’re part of a wave of companies that are mining the increasing amount of data shared on sites like Twitter and Flickr to offer search results based on what’s relevant now.
In general, we’re seeing more traction from companies that are trying to distribute their search and data… Continue Reading
Real-time search engine OneRiot turns ads on when Twitter won’t
Someone on the real-time web has a business model. And it’s not Twitter.
Real-time search engine OneRiot is launching RiotWise on Monday, a service that will pair its results with sponsored links to relevant content. The layout of the ads resemble the text links that appear in Google’s search results. However, there are a few key differences. These are content ads, i.e. ones that link to related stories and media, not e-commerce ads that hawk goods or… Continue Reading
Real-time search engine OneRiot courts developers
Real-time search is a fast-growing area that digs up results based on what people are saying or publishing right now. Companies like OneRiot, Topsy and Scoopler scour through sources like Twitter, Digg and Flickr to find out what users are sharing at the moment.
Boulder, Colorado-based OneRiot is one of many real-time search startups, and it’s launching a Developer Network today that builds off the release of its application programming interface (API) in July. It has… Continue Reading
Real-time search engine OneRiot rakes in $7 million
Real-time search engine OneRiot has raked in another $7 million in funding from existing investors Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and Spark Capital.
That brings the Boulder, Colorado-based company’s total financing to $27 million.
“It made sense for all of us to do this right now,” said Tobias Peggs, the company’s general manager, in an interview. “There’s an increasing and significant demand for real-time search results. This is a vote of confidence from our existing investors.”
Real-time search… Continue Reading
Who rules real-time search? A look at 11 contenders
Real-time search engines have proliferated over the last month, with a series of launches from start-ups like Topsy, almost.at and Scoopler. The companies are hoping to edge in on a space that Google co-founder Larry Page has admitted is a weakness for the search giant. And they’re using microblogging and social bookmarking sites as tools to figure out what content is relevant up to the second.
Real-time search is valuable because it lets you know what’s… Continue Reading
TweetMeme’s latest Twitter search tools take on Scoopler, OneRiot
Hot on the heels of Scoopler’s Twitter search launch last week and Twitscoop’s relaunch this week, British competitor TweetMeme today launched a significantly enhanced set of Twitter search tools. TweetMeme is run by news aggregator Favorit.
The trick to using TweetMeme’s new features is to look at the right-hand side of the page, where your eyes are accustomed to avoiding ad banners. There are four tools for refining your search: Age, which will return results from… Continue Reading
OneRiot lets you search for Spock in realtime
Social search — the ability to find what people are tweeting on Twitter or sharing on Facebook — is heating up. Last week Scoopler began offering near-realtime search of Web content shared by users on Twitter, Flickr, Digg, del.icio.us, and other social networks. Today, San Francisco-based OneRiot went live with its own high-speed search of the content being shared on social networks.
As seen in the results of a search for Spock, OneRiot returns not only… Continue Reading