I’ve been following the whole emergence of real time search lately. Very interested to see a whole raft of new entrants emerge to tackle real time search using a variety of techniques. Tweetmeme, for example, is using more of a Digg.com approach. Topsy has an algorithm weighted around authority of the poster. This article on VentureBeat is very interesting in that it gives a great overview of the space.
I did a quick query on Quantcast to see which of these sites have the most amount of traffic:
RT Search Engine Monthly Users search.twitter.com 688.3K friendfeed.com 202.8K tweetmeme.com 202.1K oneriot.com 28.7K scoopler.com not enough data topsy.com not enough data almost.at not enough data dailyrt.com not enough data twazzup.com not enough data collecta.com just launched
Google’s Larry Page has stated publicly this is an area they are weak in currently, though I’ve been noticing more and more inclusion of real time search results lately.
