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The problem is that real-time search is a fundamentally different proposition from archival search. In real-time search what happened in the last 5 minutes can
by mbleigh 18y ago
The problem is that real-time search is a fundamentally different proposition from archival search. In real-time search what happened in the last 5 minutes can be more important than everything that has happened before.
Google could certainly add real-time search by gaining access to the firehose (and that would be pretty cool), but simply running against the RSS feed wouldn't provide the kind of real-time updates necessary to keep up with Twitter search.
- thwarted 18y agoI think google could fake it enough with twitter RSS feeds and by aggregating RSS content from other souces, call it "real time" and provide an integrated platform that piggybacks on what people already use. It doesn't matter that it can't keep up with the "real time" that twitter provides, people would clammer to be part of google's real time offering.