Google Plus Realtime Search
Google Realtime Search will return with and for Google Plus, including other sources; http://eicker.at/GooglePlusRealtimeSearch
Google Realtime Search will return with and for Google Plus, including other sources; http://eicker.at/GooglePlusRealtimeSearch
Sullivan: As the deal with Twitter expires, Google Realtime Search goes offline; http://eicker.at/GoogleRealtimeSearch
Google: “Since October of 2009, we have had an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results through a special feed, and that agreement expired on July 2. – While we will not have access to this special feed from Twitter, information on Twitter that’s publicly available to our crawlers will still be searchable and discoverable on Google. … Twitter has been a valuable partner for nearly two years, and we remain open to exploring other collaborations in the future.”
Twitter: “Since October 2009, Twitter has provided Google with the stream of public tweets for incorporation into their real-time search product and other uses. That agreement has now expired. We continue to provide this type of access to Microsoft, Yahoo!, NTT Docomo, Yahoo! Japan and dozens of other smaller developers. And, we work with Google in many other ways.”
SEL: “The end of Google Realtime Search means that tiny search engine Topsy remains in the enviable situation of having the only major Twitter archive available on the web, to my knowledge. – Twitter’s deal appears to be continuing with Bing. I still see search results showing up over there that include Twitter. But Bing’s service never went as far back in time as Google’s. … You can certainly understand why Google+ has become even more important to the service now. While Google has gotten by largely without social signals from Facebook, having its own data from Google+ gives it insulation if it now has to get by without Twitter signals, as well.”
RWW: “It’s easy to read the falling out between Twitter and Google as being connected to the newly launched Google Plus, but it’s far too early to make any sweeping pronouncements about Google no longer needing Twitter to beef up its social search now that it has what appears to be a successful social component on its hands. Google has managed just fine without having Facebook integration, of course. But the value of Twitter in real-time searches seems to go beyond just ‘the social.’ Add to that, Google+ still a nascent network, one that may be, at least according to journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, somewhat less useful of a tool for breaking news coverage and by extension, less useful for real-time search.”
Google: Search is now faster than the speed of type. Google Instant saves time searching the Web; http://j.mp/d3qFOW
Atkins-Krüger: The Google Killer will come from the organisation connecting human knowledge mobile; http://j.mp/bqJZY5
Google is adding a timeline view of realtime updates: Google search across the Twitter archive; http://j.mp/cYmrOC
Twitter opens its Firehose tweets API for new partners focused on real-time search and discovery; http://j.mp/a57h3O
Singhal on tweet rankings at Google: User follows are analogous to page links; http://j.mp/6Yrwdp (via @Mark_Zimmermann)
TR: “‘You earn reputation, and then you give reputation. If lots of people follow you, and then you follow someone – then even though this [new person] does not have lots of followers,’ his tweet is deemed valuable because his followers are themselves followed widely, Singhal says. It is ‘definitely, definitely’ more than a popularity contest, he adds. – ‘One user following another in social media is analogous to one page linking to another on the Web. Both are a form of recommendation,’ Singhal says. ‘As high-quality pages link to another page on the Web, the quality of the linked-to page goes up. Likewise, in social media, as established users follow another user, the quality of the followed user goes up as well.’ … Singhal added that Twitter is hardly the only source of real-time information. ‘Twitter is indeed a very important component of the real-time Web. However, what we are observing is that it is just one of the components. There’s a lot of value in news, blogs, and Web pages that are being generated in real-time, because news organizations work very hard to get quality to a certain level,’ he says. ‘Twitter is indeed useful because it is short-form content. However, we are finding that the real-time Web is much bigger.'”
2010 tech predictions: Tablets, Geo, Real-time, Chrome OS, HTML5, Mobile, AR, Android, Social CRM; http://j.mp/7JS8gx
The New Google is merely a matter of search. Jarvis: Google builds hegemony in local and mobile; http://j.mp/632ewu
Google uses Google Profiles to empower its Social Search through Twitter and Friendfeed posts; http://j.mp/2ZGeWM
Gerrit Eicker 07:49 on 5. August 2011 Permalink |
Mashable: “Google Realtime Search is coming back soon, and it will include data from Google+ and other social sources. … When asked about if or when Realtime Search would return, Singhal responded by saying the Google Search team is ‘actively working’ on bringing the product back. He added that the team was experimenting with adding data from Google+ and other sources. It seems as if Google doesn’t believe it needs Twitter data to deliver a compelling real-time search offering. – Danny Sullivan, the panel’s moderator and Search Engine Land editor in chief, also asked the panel why the Google+ stream doesn’t have its own search engine (it’s one of the social network’s most requested features). – ‘We are on it,’ Singhal responded.”
SEW: “Since the new Realtime search is expected to be bumped to the front page, much like Places or image data, this works as a way for Google to cross-promote its content. It also falls into the same category as the antitrust concerns currently being reviewed in both the U.S. and Europe, which are focused on whether Google is unfairly favoring its own sites and services. – Will Google realtime even matter without Twitter? As Marketing Pilgrim noted, ‘even once (if) Google+ becomes heavily trafficked, it’s likely that the postings will resemble those you find on Facebook. Google already admitted, that Facebook wasn’t very effective as a real-time news source, so how is Google+ going to be any better?‘”
WPN: “Google Needs Twitter for Realtime Search – If you want to see up to the second results from around the world on what people are saying about any given topic, where do you go? Google+ or Twitter? – If Google really wants to organize the world’s information, maybe it needs to fork out enough money to get that firehose back. At least for a while. The early days are promising, but it’s still entirely possible that Google+ could turn into another Google Buzz or worse yet, another Google Wave. – I still can’t believe Google of all companies launched such an important strategic product without search in the first place.“