Collecta - real-time search in real-time
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 …
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 ...
...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
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.
I remember how push was going to change everything, cica 1995... MS 'live desktop' with IE4 etc. Ho hum.
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).
