qrisper » real-time search http://blog.qrisper.com the making of qrisper.com Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:32:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 The problem with real-time search http://blog.qrisper.com/2009/06/the-problem-with-real-time-search/ http://blog.qrisper.com/2009/06/the-problem-with-real-time-search/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:09:43 +0000 Jung Lee http://blog.qrisper.com/?p=171 Am I the only one that sees the fundamental flaw with real-time search?  Basically, as soon as data is presented in real-time, it is no longer real-time data.  Real-time is not a tangible thing.  It’s an event.  Hence, you can push content in real-time (like a real time news feed).  However, you cannot pull real-time data (since, as soon as that information is indexed and disseminated, it’s no longer real-time).

This may just be semantics but I think all of this sudden interest in real-time data is misplaced.  I might be stating the obvious here but real-time data has nothing to do with time.  It’s about published static content vs. conversational dynamic content.  Whereas Google search is about information created by humans, real-time search is about human thought.

Umm…so what?  Well, conversations aren’t just happening in Twitter.  Think of all of the chats, forum discussions and blog comments that are permeating from every orifice of the internet.  If you could aggregate and somehow filter all of those thoughts into easily consumable thoughtlets, well that would be like having a search engine for the internet’s stream-of-consciousness.  We’ll call it…The Matrix.

]]> http://blog.qrisper.com/2009/06/the-problem-with-real-time-search/feed/ 0 Jumping on the twitter is search bandwagon http://blog.qrisper.com/2009/03/jumping-on-the-twitter-is-search-bandwagon/ http://blog.qrisper.com/2009/03/jumping-on-the-twitter-is-search-bandwagon/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:38:54 +0000 Jung Lee http://blog.qrisper.com/?p=72 Wow, all of a sudden, everyone is talking about how Twitter is a real-time search engine.  Definitely have a few reservations about that.  How does “What are you doing?” translate into relevant search results?  Not very well at the moment except for a few well publicized events.  But what do I know?  Maybe Twitter will figure out a way to alter user behavior so that people will enter concise, meaningful posts more often than not.

One thing’s for sure…qrisper finally has some competition.

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