July 28th, 2012

Bitly Announces Realtime, A Search Engine For Trending Links

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Today Bitly announced a new Bitly Labs project called Realtime, a service for finding the most clicked on Bitly links. Realtime, now in private beta, allows users to filter searches by social network, keyword, subject and more. For example, here are the results for a search for the keyword “startups” in technology on Twitter: → Read More

April 23rd, 2010

CrowdEye Adds Location And Sentiment Filters To Realtime Search

Realtime search has come a long way from just a year ago when the only option really was Twitter’s own search engine. Now Google, Bing, and a gaggle of realtime search startups all have products up and running (even Facebook is expanding its own realtime search to include everybody’s public stream). Today, one of those realtime search startups, CrowdEye, released a bunch of new features that… → Read More

December 10th, 2009

Yahoo Dribbles More Twitter Results To Search

Earlier this week, Google made a massive push into realtime search, taking advantage of its newly gained access to Twitter’s firehose of data, as well as realtime feeds from Facebook, MySpace and others.  You can see these realtime results for every search you do by selecting the Updates option,  Bing is also in the realtime race.

So what’s Yahoo’s less-than-realtime response three days later? → Read More