Google revamps search for more recent results, affects 35% of all searches
Google has tweaked its basic search algorithm to promote fresher and more relevant content, with 35 percent of searches to be affected, the company announced today. The adjustments will impact searches for recent and reoccurring events, and other fast-changing information.
While it’s easy to focus on evolving Google products like Gmail and Google+, Google still makes most of its revenues on search and advertising. Thus, the company needs to keep you coming back for more … Continue Reading
Topsy raises another $15M for real-time search
Some of the excitement around real-time search seems to have died down recently — I’m no longer seeing hordes of startups embracing the term, and some of the most prominent companies that were active in the space have refocused. But investors still seem to be optimistic about San Francisco startup Topsy, which just announced that it has raised $15 million in a third round of funding.
Like other real-time search engines, Topsy allows users to … Continue Reading
DEMO: TrendSpottr finds what’s hot on the (real-time) Web
TrendSpottr is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a fee to present, but our coverage of them remains objective.
“Real-time search” is one of those buzzword-y phrases that gets tossed around a lot — in part because no one has really nailed the experience yet. Now a startup called TrendSpottr, being unveiled at DEMO today, says it uses … Continue Reading
Stanford student creates YouTube Instant, gets job offer from YouTube CEO
Stanford student Feross Aboukhadijeh, in a nod to the recent unveiling of Google Instant, has created a real-time search engine for YouTube videos — and it’s caught the attention of YouTube CEO Chad Hurley.
After spotting YouTube Instant, Hurley Tweeted over to Aboukhadijeh, saying he loved the idea and asking if he wanted a job.
Aboukhadijeh, who goes by the Twitter handle FreeTheFeross, sent a message back to find out if Hurley was serious about … Continue Reading
Google launches a page for improved real-time search
Google announced today that it has created a separate page for its real-time search feature, where users can view the most up-to-date search results from services like Facebook and (mostly) Twitter.
The company first added real-time results to its search engine in December, but without a page of their own, the results were a bit hidden. (Even so, they still appeared to boost Twitter’s traffic.)
Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan wrote a post in June … Continue Reading
Google tests search that delivers results as you type
Google is developing a new kind of search capability that delivers the results instantly as you type the letters.
The new experiment was discovered by search engine optimization (SEO) consultant Rob Ousbey, who noticed the results being delivered instantly and then recorded a video to show it. Google confirmed to TechCrunch that the video is real. It will be interesting to see if the new capability is launched as a standard part of Google’s search … Continue Reading
Can real-time search make a buck? OneRiot restructures
The biggest of the independent real-time search engines, OneRiot, restructured its management today and laid off an unknown number of employees, including company co-founder Robert Reich.
Kimbal Musk, a serial entrepreneur who served as chief executive, is stepping aside to serve as chairman and making way for longtime president Tobias Peggs to take the lead.
The Boulder, Colo. company, which raised $27 million in venture capital, has pioneered real-time search, a way of looking for … Continue Reading
Real-time search engine OneRiot adds data from Google Buzz
Real-time search engine OneRiot is adding the full feed of data from Google’s Buzz social sharing service to its results.
This announcement comes on top of its recent addition of Facebook’s “firehose,” a real-time feed of every publicly shared status update or “like” flooding through the social network every minute.
Since many users of Google’s social sharing product sync it to Twitter — meaning the content they tweet is duplicated and syndicated out to their … Continue Reading
Twitter search queries up 33 percent from April to 800 million per day
Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an “information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24 billion queries a month. The last time the company reported daily search volumes was back in April at its … Continue Reading
Real-time search engine Collecta picks up $4.7M from True, Dace Ventures
Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an “information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24 billion queries a month. The last time the company reported daily search volumes was back in April at its … Continue Reading
Google launches Caffeine search indexing for a faster, more chaotic web
Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an “information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24 billion queries a month. The last time the company reported daily search volumes was back in April at its … Continue Reading
OneRiot tries new way to find what's hot on social networks
Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an “information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24 billion queries a month. The last time the company reported daily search volumes was back in April at its … Continue Reading
WTF?! A fun little way of tracking news from Scoopler
Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an “information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24 billion queries a month. The last time the company reported daily search volumes was back in April at its … Continue Reading
Google real-time search adds status updates from Facebook Pages
Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an “information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24 billion queries a month. The last time the company reported daily search volumes was back in April at its … Continue Reading
Embed real-time search results in your page with Collecta widgets
Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an “information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24 billion queries a month. The last time the company reported daily search volumes was back in April at its … Continue Reading
Who rules real-time search? A look at 11 contenders
Twitter is supporting 800 million queries a day, or 33 percent more than it said it was handling back in April, according to co-founder Biz Stone, who spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival today.
That means the company, which is trying to brand itself as an “information network” rather than a social network, is handling 24 billion queries a month. The last time the company reported daily search volumes was back in April at its … Continue Reading
