realtime search

The Best Realtime Search Engines

by Jeff Weisbein June 13, 2010
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It’s no secret that in the past I’ve been disappointed with realtime search, however, recently my feelings have changed as I discovered two great realtime search engines.  The first is OneRiot and the second is Wowd.  While both of them are considered realtime search services, their approaches to solve the same problem are different.  OneRiot [...]

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Wowd: A New Approach to Search

by Jeff Weisbein May 28, 2010
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Wowd is perhaps one of the most interesting search company’s that you have never heard of, at least, yet.  Wowd is a search company but without the giant datacenters.  Intrigued?  Me too.  The way Wowd was describe to me by their CEO, Mark Drummond, is Skype for search.  How does it work?  Wowd offers a [...]

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OneRiot Solves The Realtime Search Problem

by Jeff Weisbein May 7, 2010
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Last October I wrote an article entitled “The Real Problem With Realtime Search” in which I explained one of the major problems of realtime search revolved around the lack of relevancy.  In addition to the lack of relevance within results, we were inundated with unfiltered streams of the same data and most of the time [...]

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