From TechCrunch yesterday: Get Ready For The Firehose. Search Is About To Get Realtime, Real Fast Oh great. Here we go. My post yesterday about realtime couldn’t have been more timely. Now that Google and Bing are getting the firehose, it could have a big impact on search results. For the search engines, the firehose [...]
Clive Thompson wrote this piece on “How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind“. There’s a post in Business Insider and from MSNBC with a special guest experience by Steve Berlin Johnson, called “Twitter And The Real-Time Web Are Ambushing Google”. I’m going to take a stand and call utter BS on the article and [...]
It might be vaguely contrarian to make this argument at a time when a certain realtime startup has just raised more capital to put their valuation over a whopping $1B…zomg. (why do you even need to raise money at that point? what enhancements does the app really even need?) There are a lot of other [...]
