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The Real-Time Web
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, October 6, 2009.
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A new generation of search engines is challenging Google’s dominance over the online search. OneRiot, Topsy, and Scoopler are a few of the new breed that index topics which are trending right now.
While a Google search will more likely locate more established, more static sites. Pundits are calling it real-time web, and here to tell us the difference between the web that we were always told is real time and the new real time is the fervently unstatic and always current Clive Thompson, columnist for Wired magazine.
Wired: Clive Thompson on How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind
TechCrunch: As Other Real-Time Search Engines Fizzle, OneRiot Gets Some Early Traction
(Photo by only_point_five via Flickr/Creative Commons)
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