Will Real-Time Web conquer Google?

[Pat Coyle]

Wired.com - People increasingly turn to the Internet for up-to-the-minute information about, well, everything—blog postings about celebrity antics, status updates from friends, and pictures and videos of political events as they unfold, like the protests over the Iranian election. Studies have shown that these types of search requests are on the rise.

Search engines like Tweetmeme, OneRiot, Topsy, Scoopler, and Collecta are trying to redefine what makes a piece of information important. Pundits call it the real-time Web. It's upending the Internet as we've known it, and it's not something that Google can easily dominate.
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[PK Koduri]

Both types of search have their place. Real Time search works for time-sensitive or perishable information like someone's death, accidents, etc. where there is an intense interest for a short period of time and then dissipates. Having said that I don't see why Google cannot split the screen into panels and use one of them to pull in Google News feeds related to the topic being searched.

[ashan jay]

Have you heard of Google' Wave which is on its beta version for limited users right now? Google wave is real-time web of future. And if you think twitter searches will overpower google search, in my opinion, google will never let that happen. Even if it did happen, just like how some people choose to do things in a certain way than others, there will be people using google for search. I dont think "Search it in Google" will die soon.

[Chris Tomlinson]

Ashan is right, it won't dominate Google because they won't let it happen. I'll be flat out honest I wasn't even aware of these sites or that it was becoming a trend. And to be quite honest 99% of the time a Tweet or FB posting seems like a quicker way for me to hear about "news" (however legit or bogus it is) that I might be interested in.

I'm certainly not going to go to one of these sites as soon as I hear some news. I'm going to Google it.

The immediacy and demand for immediate attention, news and the next headline is obviously on the rise, but I just can't see a site like Topsy being at the top (pun intended) of my list to search for something.