Thursday, April 15, 2010 12:01 AM/EST
Google April 14 followed up its tweet archive at Twitter's first Chirp conference with Google Follow Finder, a Twitter user locator based on Twitter's new @anywhere API. The lets users enter their Twitter account name or that of another Twitter user in a search box and receive suggestions of people to follow.
Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:21 AM/EST
Google tweeted Feb. 24 that public status updates posted to Facebook Pages are now part of Google's real-time search results. What does all of this real-time minutiae mean? Depends on who is answering the question.
Thursday, October 29, 2009 10:00 AM/EST
Collecta CEO Gerry Campbell Campbell said Microsoft is searching Twitter and indexing tweets, but not surfacing them with the same stream speed as Collecta, which he said was designed to watch the Web and persistently push Twitter and other socially-driven content to users as it arrives online.
Monday, September 14, 2009 9:48 AM/EST
The blogosphere is abuzz this morning with the discovery of a neat little hack every user can do to get Google results up to the minute. How soon before Google moves this from a cheap hack to a part of Google search for good, and down to the real-time one second goodness?