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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: Collecta Adds a Multimedia Twist to Real-Time Search

  • James F. · 4 months ago
    I have a sneaking suspicion that once Google figures out a way (or may already have) and launches their version; it will be a monopoly. They will include it in their homepage and draw millions from their billions of reegular searches.

    I think Twitter needs to go ahead and position themselves as the king of real-time. They have all the resources that the other companies want to buy out. I see them heading in that direction; but they need to do something before the year is out to make things official.

    James F.
    Owner, TwitterBackground.com - Free Twitter backgrounds
  • Noah Thomas · 4 months ago
    Question:

    Does collecta have a pre-determined system for organizing search results? It seems as though the tweets are grouped separately from the wordpress results etc. I apologize if this is a silly question but I don't have much experience with real-time search engines and certainly not with collecta.
  • Iva · 4 months ago
    This thing also grabs hidden spam comments in their search results. They need to find a way to deal with that.
  • redwall_hp · 4 months ago
    "I think Twitter needs to go ahead and position themselves as the king of real-time. They have all the resources that the other companies want to buy out. I see them heading in that direction; but they need to do something before the year is out to make things official."

    Done: Behold the new http://twitter.com/
  • drburix02 · 4 months ago
    Here’s another brand new real-time search engine that can effectively retrieve information streams (rather than individual posts): Feedmil.com
    Feedmil provides the broadest possible coverage in terms of search results by monitoring all sorts of stream types - microblogs, blogs,podcast, public & social media.
    In addition, users can conveniently set popularity range for search results to
    explore high quality but less popular information streams more quickly.
  • Monika Lorincz · 4 months ago
    @Iva83 - That is the first thing that caught my eyes. They should fix that.

    You could check out surchur.com if you're looking for the best real time results and we do combine context with speed. Plus we offer categorized results for better navigation.

    Monika Lorincz
    http://surchur.com
  • charles olimpio · 4 months ago
    http://dailyquestionsblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/
    40-years-ago-we-let-science-blind-us.html
    40 years ago we were sprayed with mace by our scientists. Blinded moonwalkers returned from billion dollar boondoggle with nothing but moonrocks
    read article at the Daily Question Blog right now............with added bonus of the dolby video

    http://dailyquestionsblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/...
  • Tom · 3 months ago
    Hey this is cool, they show images right in the client for Tweets. Search for the word twitpic for an example, you see the photo without having to click the link. Neat.