What’s Next – Real-Time Search Mashup?

Writing by Nick Stamoulis Tweet

Ever since search professionals starting talking about real-time search a la Twitter, Facebook, et. al, there has been a huge emphasis on the competitive nature and push of the industry. Twitter has even gone so far as to change the look of its search engine (when did that happen?) to look a little bit more like Google. It all makes me wonder, what’s next?

When will the real real-time search engine get here? And, more importantly, who will be the first to make it happen?

What I’m talking about, if it isn’t obvious by now, is a mashup of real-time information coming from the top sources in real-time communications such as Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds, and the many other microblogging services out there such Plurk, identi.ca, and Jaiku among others. The only company I can think of that has both the resources (human and technological) and the revenue to make it happen right now is Google. But I can’t help but wondering, if Google has the resources and the revenue then why haven’t they done it already?

What are your thoughts on real-time search?