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Following the (semi-)success of Twitter's self-search engine - meant to tell you what the world is thinking right now - there's no shortage of web-happy outfits scrambling to crack so-called real-time search. That includes everyone from Google and Facebook to Web2.0rhea-loving startups like Tweefind and Twingly. Yes, Tweefind …

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  1. Albert Gonzalez
    Boffin

    Welcome feedback loops !

    It will be most interesting to see what happens when :

    1 - A LARGE numbre of websites update their contents and choke the input pipe at collecta

    2 - Someone, uses collecta to update a page in a website monitored by collecta in realtime , pecially if they are used usually for different searches, and a cunning individual then makes an update making all the searches to be updated at once ( just by publishing a long list of searchable words )

    Interesting times ahead if this takes grip.

    Albert, with googles, waiting for the spectacle ...

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  2. Anthony Eeles
    Coat

    Flipping 'eck...

    ...A new search engine comes out and no-one at the Register decides to write a 'FAIL AND YOU' bitch-slap about it?

    Wolphram Alpha, Google Squared - 0: Collecta - 1!

    /Mines the one that's just recieved a copy of this post through XMPP

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  3. Noel Coward

    phpBB has it

    phpbb3 can use xmpp and is a very widely used forum app. I would say on the whole it is responsible for managing way more volume of content than Wordpress.

    I wonder if Collecta has thought of this: 600 million squillion forum posts a day all containing just one smiley not to mention the spam abuse frequenly pesent on many forums.

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  4. Tom Chiverton 1 Silver badge

    De ja vu

    I remember how push was going to change everything, cica 1995... MS 'live desktop' with IE4 etc. Ho hum.

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  5. ard

    Relevancy in real time is the important problem

    When it comes to real time search, you can end up with a lot of spam and trivia because you don’t have the rich back-link structure of the web to assess relevancy and “page rank”. You need totally different algorithms and a lot more intelligence in the search engine to return useful information. That's what we have done at Line Spout (http://www.linespout.com).

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