Category: Social media

There has been tons of media attention paid to all of the companies that
have entered the real time web. And, in addition to all of the new
startups, companies like Google and Bing are now mixing real time results
into their engines. However, what about the user? What can the user get
out of the real time web? In this article, we will touch on some of the
things users can do.

Here are some of the most important search engine news headlines of the week.

Last week, the new LeapFish was unveiled: A multi-media and real-time search, communication, and sharing platform. The core functionality of LeapFish is still search, but the search box now has two buttons: “Real Time” and “Search Web”.

The real time web is the focus of much attention right now. Social media in general and micro blogging in particular has seen to this: Huge amounts of current information is available for free. Web entrepreneurs are mining this inexhaustible source of updated news and opinions.

Sency is a real time search engine that offers search results to o, a free private labeled feed for websites and blogs. This feed can be embedded on your website or blog to show a scrolling ticker which will publish real time results for the query of your choice.

This week Google launched Sidewiki, a browser sidebar that lets you contribute and read information alongside any web page. This tool has some interesting uses. It also has some serious implications that have web masters worried.

Google (GOOG) is testing a new version of Google Websearch over at www2.sandbox.google.com, and they want you to give them feedback on the quality of results.

PickySite is a brand new social networking site for webmasters, internet marketers, web designers, web developers, and SEO experts. Along with PickySite’s editors, they write group and individual blogs and communicate with other members sharing the same goals.
How it works
On PickySite you can start your own personal group, or corporate blog and share information, links, [...]

Google is preparing a new tool for web communication called Google Wave.It is in essence a combination of Google Mail and Google Docs, letting people collaborate on projects.