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Real-time Search Engines
Real-time search is the newest category of Internet search. Real-time search
engines draw results from traditional sources as well as social networks like
Twitter and social bookmarking sites like Delicious. These search engines
provide you with the most up-to-date and most discussed items on the web.
Scoopler
One Riot
Scoopler is a search engine that
OneRiot is a search engine that
Collecta
allows you to simultaneously
pulls its search results from
Collecta is a real-time search
search Delicious, Digg, Twitter,
Twitter, Digg, and other social
engine that draws its results from
and Flickr in one place.
sharing services.
Twitter, YouTube, and various
Using Scoopler is quite simple,
OneRiot lists search results based
blogs and news websites.
enter a search term and you'll find
their current popularity. This
Like Scoopler and OneRiot,
results from all four of those
means that search results are
Collecta is useful for those times
services. Results are sorted into
based on what are currently the
when having the most current
two columns, "live" which provides
most shared and discussed links
information on a topic is
the most recently shared links and
rather than all-time rankings. This
important.
"popular" which is based on the
is particularly useful if having
number of times a link has been
current research or current news is
shared.
more important to your Internet
search than having possibly dated
Scoopler and other real-time
material.
search engines are good for finding
Twitter Search
new and popular teaching
OneRiot can be a good place for
A lot of Web 2.0 and social media
resources. For teachers I liken
students to find and track
experts claim that Twitter is the
shared bookmarks on the web to
developments in current news
first place they go to when they’re
shared lesson plans within a
stories. OneRiot is also useful for
looking for information. Even if
school building.
students that are searching for the
you don’t have a Twitter account,
latest news to include in a report
You can find Scoopler at http://
you can still search Twitter to see
about a niche topic in science or
scoopler.com
what people are talking about and
economics.
to see the links they’re sharing. To
Check out OneRiot at http://
do this visit http://
oneriot.com
search.twitter.com
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