Last month we heard  the rumors everywhere that Google is bringing its own real time search engine and Google buying Twitter. So what is the main advantage of  real time search engines?

The importance of real time search engine is  it tell you what’s happening right now on any matter. There are lots of search engines present on the web which is able to tell about the current hot topics and latest news on different topics.

There are some disadvantages of such search engines as they don’t provide filtered news so we can also get some spams results, but there are some intelligent search engines available which can stick to you from filtered results.

1)   Twitter: The king of every search engine, recently everyone saw the power of Twitter while Iran elections and death of Pop giant Michael Jackson. We got every single feed related to MJ on twitter. So twitter actually works on Discovery engine which give you real time results.

2)  Scoopler Now this is my favorite one. Why? Because Scoopler results divided into two columns, one with live content and the other with results depends upon popularity. Also the page updates automatically without refreshing the page. It gives results and news stories from: Twitpic, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Flickr, and Identica and links from all the top blogs of the world. Also there is an option of image in which you can see the top images on Flickr and Twitpic. A must try search engine.

3)   Oneriot: According to Oneriot “OneRiot crawls the links people share on Twitter, Digg and other social sharing services, and then indexes the content on those pages in seconds. The end result is a search experience that allows users to find the freshest, most socially-relevant content from across the real-time web.”

It is used efficiently by  searching for a certain domain name and see that what have been shared most from the website on a web.

4)  Tweetmeme: Tweetmeme is a UK basedsearch engine. The owner of website is Kevin Rose who owns Digg.com.

Update: Oops! I made a blunder here by quoting the wrong owner of  Tweetmeme. I deeply aplologize for my mistake, I got to know about my mistake from a blog comment and when i traced the tweet of Mr.Nick Halstead just few minutes back http://twitter.com/nickhalstead/status/2374703671.  Mr. Nick Halstead is CEO of tweetmeme and i deeply apologize for my mistake specially to him.

Tweetmeme point out three basic things: level of retweets, keywords and article relevance .The basic concept behind Tweetmeme is number of tweets and real time news. The news becomes more and more famous if it gets more and more number of Tweets in a real time and comes at the first page. The news on the front page automatically got famous by more and more exposure.

After a few unsuccessful attempts of MSN Search and then Live search, Microsoft comes up with another effort to relaunch and get into into the search space which has been occupied by Google and Yahoo for years now. “Bing”, as they named their new engine will be live on June 3. After codenaming it KIMO since the past few months, Microsoft had to really work hard in order to reach to the name Bing.

Bing Homepage

With Wolframalpha being launched last month, it seems that the internet search space is again getting hotter with noew technologies and ways to vie for customers are being introduced. While Wolframalpha named their search engine “knowledge engine”, Microsoft calls Bing as “Decision Engine”. “We are introducing a new level of organisation to search results, and our differentiator will be the best results for query,” Satya Nadella, senior vice- president (R&D , online services division) Microsoft told mediapersons in a press conference on Friday. He also said, “Bing would initially focus on four key areas: “making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business”.

Although they claim that Bing would give customer service center numbers apart from the best product deals for any company, my test for HP and British Airways had all the 3 : Bing, Yahoo and Google give the same result, including the sponsored links, the only difference being the no of search results and the time it took them to answer. Though I would like to add that Google and Yahoo did concentrate on Hindustan Petroleum apart from Hewlett Packard which Bing did not.  Also Y and G showed some local results as well. So as a matter of fact I could not find anything different, probably I need to conduct some more searches in order to find out Bing’s real power, if any.

Well I hope it has something different from the rest or else Mr.Ballmer, with due respect, the Bing camppaign would just reamain as successful as the previous editions of the MS engines.

Well lots to discuss and to explore Microsoft’s, hopefully, last effort to get that search space pie back, I’ll leave you with a Bing video tour posted at Labnol.

Its May 2009 and the next BIG thing in internet is going to arrive this month itself. Yes. I am indeed talking about “WOLFRAM“, the next technology search engine or rather called as the knowledge engine will be out for the masses.

Wolframalpha Knowledge Engine

Wolfram, developed by Stephen Wolfram, claims that it will the best, the most exact and the most illustrative answers to the search queries. “Tailor made answers” is what he says it will produce. It was showcased in the Harvard University last week and experts have already started claiming that it will give search giants Google a run for their money. While it is yet to be put up in front of the world, some internet experts have already made statements like “the new search engine will be an evolutionary step in the development of the internet”. Based on his own bestselling mathematics software MATHEMATICA, to shoe its accuracy,the wolfram blog quotes

If you ask Wolfram|Alpha the distance to the moon, it tells you not only the conventionally quoted average distance, but also the actual distance right now, which can at times be well over ten thousand miles off the average. The actual distance is a figure that can be arrived at only by computation based on the moon’s known orbital parameters.

And if thats not all, Wolfram claims that it draws answers from not only knowledge on the internet it even grills private databases.If thats really the level of its accuracy, I guess even I wont mind changing my search home to wolfram from the Holy Grail Google.

Image by hongxing128 via Flickr

SEO – Search engine optimisation is quite common word in the internet.If you want optimum concentration for your website it is important to draw customers to your site.  Studies have shown that if you use a combination of words you are more likely to have people find you.  A keyword is very helpful when it is used in a trio or foursome combination.  If you have a specific product, you want to narrow the search to your site.  When you use a keyword phrase you are bettering the odds in your favor that your site will be noticed.

If you are looking for a new cat litter you wouldn’t just type in “cats” as your keyword.  You would initiate the search engine optimisation using at least two keywords “cat litter”.  However, if you wanted a specific brand of cat litter you would type in “VIC cat litter”. This would narrow your search.  Your customers are going to use this same approach.  Wouldn’t it be to your benefit to use this same type of phrasing when writing about your product?

If you aren’t going into detail, your site will be thrown in with the multitudes and won’t have a very high ranking.  If you are fortunate to achieve a fairly good ranking with just one or two keywords you still probably won’t actually produce buyers.  They are more likely just looking without much intention of making a purchase.

The more information you can pass on in your three or four word phrase the better off your business will be.  When the large web crawlers search out the products you want them to find you.  When you write your articles you should try to achieve a fairly high penetration rate of your keyword phrase or phrases.  There are sites devoted to helping writers find keyword phrases to enhance their marketing.  The best idea for search engine optimisation would be to include as many keywords and keyword phrases as you can.