Charticle: The Battle for Real-Time Search

Ann Smarty at ProductiveWise sizes up the various options for tapping into real-time search - Twitter, Facebook, Google and Friendfeed. Personally, I am finding Google's new search options to be outstanding - an addicting.


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Actually, you wrote a post about that trick http://www.steverubel.com/google-real-time-search-bookmarklet :)
I believe in the near future, when some sort of integration between the FF and FB platforms, will offer a competitive position for FaceBook against Google.
As far as the necessity for "real-time" searches, I believe that by monitoring a particular topic or discussion of a brand might be helpful in a larger perspective, but responding to such information "real-time" can be, at best, reactionary. On the other hand, I suppose I can understand the value of more immediate changes in search rankings, brand buzz, and such for the SEO gurus. That, however, is a very different topic.