22May

Real Time Search

Posted by Steve Renner as Search Engine Marketing, Social Media, Web 2.0

Real Time Search is the future of the Internet. With an online connection anyone can instantly be informed of events as they happen. Here is a cool video on the Evolution Of Information.

Evolution Of Information

We are a Want It NOW - Instant Gratification society, and web give us this Instant Access. With the evolution of real time applications like Text Messaging and Micro Blogging we can tune in real time to each others thoughts. Now everyone is scrambling to deliver information faster!

Google has declared real-time search to be one of the biggest unsolved challenges it faces.
The NYTimes put a link to a new real-time view of all its news stories on the front page of its site.
Facebook announced a new feature that will let users be notified instantly when their friends interact with media related to themselves on the site.

Real time also means information can be quickly out of date. One thing I have learned in 11 years online is that things change at the speed of light, and you always have to stay ahead of the curve, or get left in the dust.

In an information hungry society, the question really becomes “Time”. How much time do we have, and what should we spend our time on?

What interests me may not interest you, there is no “One Size Fits All” for information consumption. There’s only so many hours in a day, and with all the information available it’s easy to get overwhelmed.

Sometimes the best thing you can do is to take a step back, take a deep breath and focus in on what’s important to you, and enjoy the short time we have here on this planet. Your Time - now - That’s Real Time!

Sorry, this was intended to be an article about Real Time Search, I didn’t intend to go all philosophical on you here but I just felt it so I went with it.

Anyway… we’ll get back to Real Time Search in the next update