Tag Archives: real-time search

Personalised and real-time search – let me turn them off!

March 12, 2010 – 1:08 pm

Call me an old Luddite if you will, but to me – as a user rather than just as an SEO – personalised search is a faulty concept. The whole point of “search” is that I’m looking for something I usually don’t know much about – so why would I want sites that I already [...]

By bill | Posted in Google, personalised search | Comments (2)

Bing and Twitter could shift the search landscape

October 21, 2009 – 8:49 pm

As Danny Sullivan has just announced Microsoft’s Bing is launching has launched a Twitter Search system www.bing.com/twitter which includes a front page featuring a hot-topic cloud and list of top tweets.
This gives Microsoft a major boost in the increasingly important area of real-time search, an area in which Google is perceived by some to be [...]

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